Re: Question about emacs server.

[Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>]

On Thursday 01 April 2010 11:10 AM, Sergio A. Morales wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> Im a new user of emacs and i wondered if  emacs-server and emacsclient
> can work like the CTU terminals in 24 (tv serie). Actually i can connect
> to a emacsserver from emacsclient but i can't view or modify the buffer
> (read only), so maybe there are something i'm doing wrong or that is the
> normal behavior for emacsclient and a remote file.
>
> I was expecting this behavior: Someone on my network send me to my emacs
> his buffer (a file, a game, a shell, etc). Then i work on it and return
> it to him. So i constantly send and recibe buffers meanwhile the changes
> are write in the respective origen files.
>
> Can this be posible with emacs? How? I need other software?
>

I think you may have confused the use for emacs server and client.

Emacs server runs an emacs session in the background. Now you can 
connect to this server with emacsclient and edit the files you want to. 
The useful part is you can run multiple emacsclients to edit the *same* 
buffer. If you choose to, the server will retain all the buffers even if 
you logout from your desktop. (but of course it doesn't survive a reboot 
:-p)

Maybe an example will illustrate this better. Often I start an emacs 
server at work, do some editing. At the end of the day I logout and 
leave, but my emacs server keeps running in the background with all my 
buffers. Now if I want to work from home, I can just connect to my 
workstation at work and use emacsclient to connect to the server, and I 
can continue where I left off.

It is even possible to ask the emacsclient on your local machine to 
connect to a remote emacs server over tramp if the remote server has 
been started with the proper options. ;)

> Thank you for your time and sorry for the poor english.
>

Not a problem at all as long as everyone understands you. :)

PS: 24 is just a TV show, they say and do lots of unrealisable stuff ;)

-- 
Suvayu

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