From: Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@googlemail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Calling emacsclient
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 14:53:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fw4cwata.fsf@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87ip9b9zvj.fsf@gmail.com
William Gardella <gardellawg@gmail.com> writes:
> Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@googlemail.com> writes:
>> Question:
>> How do I get the behaviour described in the manual: "If this
>> option [-s] is omitted, emacsclient connects to the first server it
>> finds." ?
>
> Based on my own experience, that passage you quoted from (info "(emacs)
> emacsclient Options") is just plain incorrect. Emacsclient run without
> -s simply expects the server to be named the default server name,
> `server'. It fails if it can't find this server, or fails over to
> starting up emacs --daemon if run with -a "" or an ALTERNATE_EDITOR=""
> environment. The emacsclient manpage, btw, holds out no such hope that
> the "first server it finds" thing referenced in the Info manual will
> work.
>
> I'm writing up a bug report against the Info manual.
After some experimenting it seems to me that there is another bug, at
least in my case
,---------------------------
| (call 'emacsclient
| "-e"
| "(message \"CALL 1\")")
`---------------------------
does not work, while
,---------------------------
| (call 'emacsclient
| "--eval"
| "(message \"CALL 1\")")
`---------------------------
does (on Archlinux).
I have another problem not yet solved - I want to call an Emacsclient
with a file to open and some code to evaluate. Using the "-c" and
"--eval" options in one call gives an error for me, and this seems to be
in accordance with the manual that says its either the one or the other.
However, if I try two sequential calls instead, it works somehow, but
not as intended. These two calls directly after another
,--------------------------
| (call 'emacsclient
| "-c" "my/dir/my-file")
`--------------------------
,---------------------------
| (call 'emacsclient
| "--eval"
| "(message \"CALL 1\")")
`---------------------------
open a new emacs-frame showing a 'my-file' buffer, but in the *Messages*
buffer there is no CALL 1 message. But when I kill the Emacsclient-frame
with C-x C-c, CALL 1 is shown as return value in the calling external
program and now appears in the *Messages* buffer too. It seems the
second call is waiting for the first call to terminate.
Now I wonder how I can call Emacsclient with a file I want to edit, but
make it (immediately) evaluate some code when it starts up? Is that
possible in the call(s) itself, or do I have to use hooks or something
like that?
--
cheers,
Thorsten
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <mailman.12766.1352681489.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-11-12 5:03 ` Calling emacsclient William Gardella
2012-11-12 13:04 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2012-11-12 14:15 ` Suvayu Ali
2012-11-12 14:58 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2012-11-14 13:53 ` Thorsten Jolitz [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.12968.1352901198.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-11-14 17:10 ` William Gardella
2012-11-14 20:08 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2012-11-14 17:22 ` William Gardella
2012-11-14 17:23 ` William Gardella
2012-11-14 20:01 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2012-11-12 0:51 Thorsten Jolitz
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