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From: Vijay Lakshminarayanan <laksvij@gmail.com>
To: Renato <rennabh@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: open file from command line as new buffer?
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2011 08:13:07 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ipq7nw3o.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110808190407.40d10a47@gmail.com> (Renato's message of "Mon, 8 Aug 2011 19:04:07 +0200")

Renato <rennabh@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello, simple question: I have the emacs gui started. How can I open a
> new file, from command line, such that it will open as
> a new buffer in the existing emacs process instead of starting a new
> emacs process?

In your emacs, start the emacs server with M-x server-start

From the command line, emacsclient <filename> should open the file in an
emacs buffer.

> cheers
> renato
>

-- 
Cheers
~vijay

Gnus should be more complicated.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-08-09  2:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-08 17:04 open file from command line as new buffer? Renato
2011-08-09  0:01 ` Makoto MOTOHASHI
2011-08-09  2:43 ` Vijay Lakshminarayanan [this message]
2011-08-09  8:03   ` Renato
2011-08-09  2:49 ` Eli Zaretskii

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