Re: emacsclient: --quiet/--verbose

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

Michael Mauger wrote:
> 
> Juanma Barranquero wrote:
>> On 12/1/06, Michael Mauger <mmaug@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Finally, if people could take another look at the Tramp changes I
>>> proposed
>>> for emacsclient.
>> I don't have anything about emacsclient using Tramp, as long as it is
>> not the only way, of course. TCP sockets are fine for my uses.
>>
>>
> 
> See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2006-11/msg01195.html for
> the Tramp patch.
> 
> The use of Tramp doesn't impact how emacsclient and emacs communicate.  It
> has to do with how does emacs addresses the file that resides on a remote
> machine.  My patch allowed you on the remote machine to address the file
> locally to emacsclient, but pass a filename that would appear remote to
> emacs.  Obviously, if emacsclient and emacs were on the same machine, the
> Tramp settings would not be set and things would work as they do now.  (The
> version of gnuclient I use to use had a similar feature that spoiled me
> rotten.)
> 
> An example:
> 
> me@aaa $ emacs &
> me@aaa $ ssh bbb -l me
> 
> me@bbb $ scp me@aaa:.emacs.d/server/server ~/.emacs.d/server/me-aaa
> me@bbb $ EMACS_SERVER_FILE=$HOME/.emacs.d/server/me-aaa
> me@bbb $ export EMACS_SERVER_FILE
> me@bbb $ cd /etc
> 
> (Now I want to edit the /etc/hosts file but there is no emacs available on
> bbb,  so I ask to edit it in the emacs instance under me@aaa)
> 
> me@bbb $ emacsclient /me@bbb:/etc/hosts    # without Tramp support 
>                       # Must specify Tramp prefix and absolute file name
> 
> me@bbb $ EMACS_TRAMP_PREFIX=/me@bbb:
> me@bbb $ export EMACS_TRAMP_PREFIX
> me@bbb $ emacsclient hosts                          # same as above with
> Tramp support
>                       # emacsclient sends Tramp prefix and makes filename
> absolute


I do not think this can work. (Or am I misunderstanding something?) 
Emacsclient have to expand local file names before sending them to emacs 
server since the server and the client may have different working 
directories.

Could not your problem be solved with a shell script that adds 
EMACS_TRAMP_PREFIX to the file names before calling emacsclient?