raising an iconified emacs server

raising an iconified emacs server

[rustom]

I am trying to make an emacsclient call such that it pops up the emacs
server.
I have the following lines in my .emacs

(server-start)
(defun myserver ()
  (raise-frame)
  (remember)
)

Then when I call emacsclient.emacs-snapshot -e '(myserver)'
the icon for emacs just blinks in the icon-bar but it does not
activate the window

If I change (raise-frame) to (make-frame-visible) it activates the
emacs window but does not bring it to the top. This is so even if I
use both (raise-frame) and (make-frame-visible)

So any ideas about how to (1) activate (if necesary deiconify) and (2)
bring to top the emacs frame??

Also one more thing:  Where do I get the 'emacs as server' info files
(under debian etch)?

Thanks

Rustom

Re: raising an iconified emacs server

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

rustom wrote:
> I am trying to make an emacsclient call such that it pops up the emacs
> server.
> I have the following lines in my .emacs
> 
> (server-start)
> (defun myserver ()
>   (raise-frame)
>   (remember)
> )
> 
> Then when I call emacsclient.emacs-snapshot -e '(myserver)'
> the icon for emacs just blinks in the icon-bar but it does not
> activate the window
> 
> If I change (raise-frame) to (make-frame-visible) it activates the
> emacs window but does not bring it to the top. This is so even if I
> use both (raise-frame) and (make-frame-visible)
> 
> So any ideas about how to (1) activate (if necesary deiconify) and (2)
> bring to top the emacs frame??


I have solved this by calling

   emacsclient -n

afterwards.

Re: raising an iconified emacs server

[rustom]

On Dec 19, 3:21 pm, "Lennart Borgman (gmail)"
<lennart.borg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have solved this by calling
>
>    emacsclient -n
>
> afterwards.

Doesn't work. The window still stays below other windows.
Anyway why should 'no wait for server to return' have anything to do
with window arrangement?

Re: raising an iconified emacs server

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

rustom wrote:
> On Dec 19, 3:21 pm, "Lennart Borgman (gmail)"
> <lennart.borg...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have solved this by calling
>>
>>    emacsclient -n
>>
>> afterwards.
> 
> Doesn't work. The window still stays below other windows.
> Anyway why should 'no wait for server to return' have anything to do
> with window arrangement?


Hm, that might be something I added to emacsclient, not sure at the 
moment. Or something that is specific to the MS Windows client.

Why -n? I just happened to have it there, just

   emacsclient

without any arguments at all is sufficient in my case.