From: Robert Thorpe <rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com>
To: Jacob Gerlach <jacobgerlach@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Reuse frame with emacsclient and/or use shell aliases when finding files
Date: Sat, 31 May 2014 16:49:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877g52q76l.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5fefb77c-7a7b-4ec6-bde3-fef2d2aa4877@googlegroups.com> (message from Jacob Gerlach on Sat, 31 May 2014 07:16:03 -0700 (PDT))
Jacob Gerlach <jacobgerlach@gmail.com> writes:
>> That's wierd. Have a look at the section on "Emacs Server" in the Emacs
>> manual. Emacsclient can only work if you have an Emacs server running.
>> To get one you have to start Emacs then run (server-start). After that
>> emacsclient will send a message to the running Emacs server telling it
>> to open the file.
> Perhaps a bit of miscommunication. I was starting the server by
> running `emacs --daemon'. From my reading of the server help page,
> this does more or less the same thing as a regular instance with
> (server-start).
Ah, daemon mode is a different thing. I don't know about it, maybe
someone else here does though.
> Previous comment about --daemon notwithstanding, I tried it the way
> you suggest, and this seems closer to the functionality I'm looking
> for. I need to play around with this a bit and see if I can tweak it
> to work exactly the way I like.
> For example, I'd like the same shell command to start emacs initially
> as to connect as a client if it's already running. I think I figured
> out how to do this when running --daemon, specifying alternate editor
> as ''. I imagine it's something similar.
Set ALTERNATE_EDITOR to "emacs". That said what you want should work
with emacs --daemon.
BR,
Robert Thorpe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-31 15:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-30 21:56 Reuse frame with emacsclient and/or use shell aliases when finding files Jacob Gerlach
2014-05-30 22:13 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2014-05-30 22:47 ` Robert Thorpe
[not found] ` <mailman.2576.1401490089.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-05-31 1:57 ` Jacob Gerlach
2014-05-31 11:21 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2014-05-31 11:22 ` Robert Thorpe
[not found] ` <mailman.2614.1401535376.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-05-31 14:16 ` Jacob Gerlach
2014-05-31 15:49 ` Robert Thorpe [this message]
2014-05-31 11:41 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2014-05-31 13:39 ` Robert Thorpe
2014-05-31 15:54 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2014-06-01 23:42 ` lee
[not found] ` <mailman.2724.1401666174.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-06-02 1:10 ` Jacob Gerlach
[not found] ` <mailman.2618.1401536506.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-06-06 8:35 ` Hans BKK
2014-06-06 11:31 ` Alexander Baier
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