From: Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@googlemail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Calling emacsclient
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 01:51:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pq3jk5ix.fsf@googlemail.com> (raw)
Hi List,
with one emacs-daemon (named 'emacs1') running, the following external
call to emacsclient succeeds:
,-----------------------------
| (call 'emacsclient
| "-s" "emacs1"
| "-a" ""
| "-c" "file...")
`-----------------------------
But what I really would need is a more generic version that does not use
the server-name. The manual says:
,------------------------------------------------------------------
| ‘-s server-name’
| ‘--socket-name=server-name’
|
| Connect to the Emacs server named server-name. The server name is
| given by the variable server-name on the Emacs server. If this
| option is omitted, emacsclient connects to the first server it
| finds. (This option is not supported on MS-Windows.)
`------------------------------------------------------------------
This does not work in my case. If I use
,-----------------------------
| (call 'emacsclient
| "-c" "file...")
`-----------------------------
I get:
,-----------------------------------------------------------------------
| emacsclient: can't find socket; have you started the server?
| To start the server in Emacs, type "M-x server-start".
| emacsclient: No socket or alternate editor. Please use:
|
| --socket-name
| --server-file (or environment variable EMACS_SERVER_FILE)
| --alternate-editor (or environment variable ALTERNATE_EDITOR)
`-----------------------------------------------------------------------
while
,-----------------------------
| (call 'emacsclient
| "-a" ""
| "-c" "file...")
`-----------------------------
starts a new emacs-daemon (although emacs-server 'emacs1' is running).
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." ?
I would need a generic call to emacsclient that first looks for a
running server (which ever it encounters) and only starts a new daemon
if there is no server running already.
I'm on Arch Linux.
--
cheers,
Thorsten
next reply other threads:[~2012-11-12 0:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-12 0:51 Thorsten Jolitz [this message]
[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
[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
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