From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Davison Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: How to jump to running emacs with emacsclient Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 15:33:18 -0400 Message-ID: <87vd948e4h.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1277675741 10948 80.91.229.12 (27 Jun 2010 21:55:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:55:41 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 27 23:55:40 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OSzpD-0002vH-VO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Jun 2010 23:55:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59440 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OSzpD-00009e-Js for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Jun 2010 17:55:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=50165 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OSxbZ-0005aT-Jt for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Jun 2010 15:33:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OSxbY-0005kW-SB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Jun 2010 15:33:25 -0400 Original-Received: from markov.stats.ox.ac.uk ([163.1.210.1]:45800) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OSxbY-0005kA-LF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Jun 2010 15:33:24 -0400 Original-Received: from blackcap.stats.ox.ac.uk (blackcap.stats [163.1.210.5]) by markov.stats.ox.ac.uk (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id o5RJXNBc024800 for ; Sun, 27 Jun 2010 20:33:23 +0100 (BST) Original-Received: by blackcap.stats.ox.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 5158) id 04BA52186C; Sun, 27 Jun 2010 20:33:22 +0100 (BST) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 8 (1) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 17:55:08 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:73987 Archived-At: Using gnome on ubuntu, a shell command like emacsclient /some/file switches window focus to the running emacs and visits the file. I'd like to do this without specifying a file to visit, so that I can (in gnome) bind a command to a key that will cause my window manager to simply jump to emacs and show the current buffer. How? Dan