From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: newbie emacsclient question Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2003 15:24:43 -0600 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3F5CF39B.6040202@yahoo.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1063060871 30740 80.91.224.253 (8 Sep 2003 22:41:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 22:41:11 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 09 00:41:09 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19wUh3-000387-00 for ; Tue, 09 Sep 2003 00:41:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 19wUgf-0004Cj-V0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Sep 2003 18:40:45 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 29 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1063056281 20815185 170.207.51.80 (16 [82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:116443 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:12361 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:12361 Christian Seberino wrote: > I find myself starting emacs MANY times a day. I vaguely remember > something > called emacsclient that I believe lets you keep one instance of emacs > running > always and it gets used whenever anything tries to launch emacs. > Is this the best and a stable tool to do this??? Yes, and it is distributed with emacs so it should already be installed in the same place. > Is would be kinda nice to not have to keep starting emacs a zillion > times a day. Why would you ever exit emacs? Many of us run it for weeks at a time. > Sometimes I may have a program itself call emacs like in mutt or an > IDE or GUI building tool. Will emacsclient work with these too?? Yes. -- Kevin Rodgers