Re: Is it possible to use emacsclient as the Gnome system editor?

[Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>]

David Kastrup wrote:
> Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se> writes:
> 
>> Basically: yes. However with the current emacsclient you have to start
>> emacs first.
> 
> Not true.  You can use `-a emacs' in the emacsclient invocation.
> 
>> There has currently been a discussion on the emacs devel list where
>> I have tried to argue that in Emacs 22 emacsclient should be able to
>> automatically start emacs when needed. I think most people there
>> would agree it is a good (but for many not very important)
>> thing. However it does not seem that it will make it into Emacs 22.
> 
> For the GNOME association, the above should do the trick perfectly
> well.
> 

Yes, you are right. However you have also to start emacs server in your 
init files.

The more problematic case is when you want to use emacs as an edit 
server for another program and wait. In that case you have to have emacs 
started first.