From: Michael Albinus via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Jonas Bernoulli <jonas@bernoul.li>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, 71971@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#71971: 31.0.50; Add user option server-window-alist
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2024 20:02:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87plrlf7mu.fsf@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ttgxtdfr.fsf@bernoul.li> (Jonas Bernoulli's message of "Wed, 10 Jul 2024 18:32:56 +0200")
Jonas Bernoulli <jonas@bernoul.li> writes:
Hi,
> Thanks for the clarifications, I understand better now and agree its
> a worthwhile goal. Unfortunately I have no idea how to do it, but I
> look forward to see what you and others come up with. I can't think
> of anything myself, for now at least.
What I could imagine is, that emacsclient gets the option to send an
identification, a string, to the server. With this, on the server side,
a set of preferences (variables) could be set for a given
identification, which matches a regexp. Not only for server-window, but
any variable. This would look like
((REGEXP (VAR . VALUE) .. (VAR . VALUE))
(REGEXP (VAR . VALUE) .. (VAR . VALUE))
...)
Any VAR, like server-window, would use its related VALUE, which has
precedence.
Packages, like magit, could prepare such preferences, and activate if
the corresponding emacsclient sends an identification which matches a
regexp. User could prepare their own preferences, and invoke emacsclient
with their private identification, like 'emacsclient --ident="my-identification"'.
On protocol level between emacsclient and server.el, we would need a new
command '-ident'. Or, if we must be backwards compatible, we could use
'eval' to set it, or we could use a special formatted '-comment'.
This doesn't say which variables we recommend to use for
preferences. Just a mean to communicate between emacsclient and
server.el.
> Cheers!
Best regards, Michael.
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-07-06 11:06 bug#71971: 31.0.50; Add user option server-window-alist Michael Albinus via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-07-06 11:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-06 11:58 ` Michael Albinus via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-07-06 14:16 ` Jonas Bernoulli via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-07-06 14:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-08 17:41 ` Jonas Bernoulli via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-07-08 17:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-09 19:05 ` Jonas Bernoulli via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-07-10 11:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-10 16:32 ` Jonas Bernoulli via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-07-10 18:02 ` Michael Albinus via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
2024-07-19 16:45 ` Michael Albinus via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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