Re: emacsclient command line use existing client

[torys.anderson@gmail.com (Tory S. Anderson)]

Thanks for prompting me to be more precise. When my OS starts I launch a server with the autostart `emacs-client` command, and have the line in my .emacs to ensure the server is started. As it should, opening any number of new frames (or launching emacs-client again) will share the same buffer list, etc. However, this shell script for launching an email (apparently) starts a new server; it isn't sharing anything with the other frames, and if I don't `kill-emacs` I end up with two servers running. Clearly, not acceptable. 

Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:

> torys.anderson@gmail.com (Tory S. Anderson) writes:
>
>> elisp_expr="(mailto-compose-mail \"$mailto\")"
>>
>> emacsclient -a "" -c -n --eval "$elisp_expr" \
>> 	'(set-window-dedicated-p (selected-window) t)'
>>
>> But somehow when I run this it starts a new emacsclient rather than
>> using the one I have running. If I remove the `-a ""` then nothing
>> happens at all. Why won't it connect to my existing emacsclient?
>
> What exactly do you mean with "existing emacsclient"?  You must have a
> running server.  A running Emacs is not enough.
>
> Michael.