Re: Reuse frame with emacsclient and/or use shell aliases when finding files

[Robert Thorpe <rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com>]

Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com> writes:

> Jacob Gerlach <jacobgerlach@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> What I think that I want to do is figure out how to reuse an existing
>> GUI frame if it exists.
>
> A bit OT, but something I always wanted to find out:
>
> Say I have 5 emacsclients connected to the same server, some started by
> me on the command line, others by external programs, and I want those
> external programs to reuse the specific emacsclient instance they
> started for further code evaluation, showing other documents etc - how
> do I do that?

I don't think you can do that without modifying the Emacs server code
directly.  That might not be so hard though, you could use the -e option
to emacsclient to send info to the bits within Emacs that you change.

BR,
Robert Thorpe