From: reader@newsguy.com
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Starting emacs in ediff mode.
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:00:03 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ir1evt30.fsf@newsguy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: f7ccd24b0801270655q750c62ay1ae93baecf568e35@mail.gmail.com
"Juanma Barranquero" <lekktu@gmail.com> writes:
> Of course you can run emacsclient so it will start Emacs if it is not
> running; that's what the --alternate-editor option is for. The trick,
> of course, is that --alternate-editor doesn't run Emacs as a server
> connected to the emacsclient instance that started it. That does not
> preclude using it as default viewer/editor in all cases, just the ones
> where it is automatically run from a tool that expects it to be done
> when emacsclient returns (for example, in many VCS when emacsclient is
> used as the editor for the commit logs).
Sorry to butt in here... I'm a (lightweight) user of emacs considering
starting to use emacsclient.
What does your comment mean practically (aside from VCS usage).
My usage is pretty basic. Scripting, gnus, file and directory
manipulation, bbdb, tramp.... probably a few other things I forgot.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-28 16:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-24 0:51 Starting emacs in ediff mode DaLoverhino
2008-01-24 2:42 ` Kevin Rodgers
2008-01-24 16:50 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-01-25 9:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-25 14:55 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-01-25 16:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-25 17:03 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-01-26 8:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-26 13:46 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-01-26 14:21 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
[not found] ` <mailman.6567.1201357297.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-01-26 19:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-26 20:52 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-01-26 21:55 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.6561.1201337056.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-01-27 13:17 ` Richard G Riley
2008-01-27 14:55 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-01-27 15:13 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-01-27 22:25 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-01-28 16:00 ` reader [this message]
2008-01-28 16:36 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2008-01-28 16:43 ` Juanma Barranquero
[not found] ` <mailman.6605.1201445728.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-01-28 11:32 ` Richard G Riley
[not found] ` <mailman.6531.1201279722.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-01-25 20:58 ` DaLoverhino
2008-01-26 7:08 ` Thierry Volpiatto
[not found] ` <mailman.6460.1201142559.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-01-24 16:40 ` DaLoverhino
2008-01-24 18:03 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2008-01-24 18:50 ` Rob Wolfe
2008-01-25 20:51 ` DaLoverhino
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