all messages for Emacs-related lists mirrored at yhetil.org
 help / color / mirror / code / Atom feed
From: Alexandros Prekates <aprekates@posteo.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Help me understand the exec entry in emacsclient.desktop
Date: Sat,  2 Dec 2023 01:37:47 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20231202033737.792a9e7a@enous-devuan> (raw)

[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 523 bytes --]

That is the entry:

Exec=sh -c "if [ -n \\"\\$*\\" ]; then exec emacsclient
--alternate-editor= --display=\\"\\$DISPLAY\\" \\"\\$@\\"; else exec
emacsclient --alternate-editor= --create-frame; fi"

My interpretation so far is: If files where given as arguments then
start in a certain display and use the current opened frame .
If files were not given then create a new frame.
But it doesnt make much sense to me. Also why  sh %F and not %F ?
And why in the latter case display is not being set ?

Alexandros.

[-- Attachment #2: OpenPGP digital signature --]
[-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 659 bytes --]

             reply	other threads:[~2023-12-02  1:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-12-02  1:37 Alexandros Prekates [this message]
2023-12-17  0:58 ` Help me understand the exec entry in emacsclient.desktop Mekeor Melire

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20231202033737.792a9e7a@enous-devuan \
    --to=aprekates@posteo.net \
    --cc=help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index

	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git

This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.