How to jump to running emacs with emacsclient

How to jump to running emacs with emacsclient

[Dan Davison]

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

Re: How to jump to running emacs with emacsclient

[Juanma Barranquero]

On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 21:33, Dan Davison <dandavison7@gmail.com> wrote:
> Using gnome on ubuntu, a shell command like

> 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?

You could try perhaps

   emacsclient -n --eval '(progn (raise-frame)
(select-frame-set-input-focus (selected-frame)))'

    Juanma

Re: How to jump to running emacs with emacsclient

[Lennart Borgman]

On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 21:33, Dan Davison <dandavison7@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Using gnome on ubuntu, a shell command like
>
>> 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?
>
> You could try perhaps
>
>   emacsclient -n --eval '(progn (raise-frame)
> (select-frame-set-input-focus (selected-frame)))'


Doesn't select-frame-set-input-focus do raise-frame?

Re: How to jump to running emacs with emacsclient

[Juanma Barranquero]

On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 03:42, Lennart Borgman
<lennart.borgman@gmail.com> wrote:

> Doesn't select-frame-set-input-focus do raise-frame?

Perhaps. I just did cursory testing.

    Juanma

Re: How to jump to running emacs with emacsclient

[Lennart Borgman]

On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 3:54 AM, Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 03:42, Lennart Borgman
> <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Doesn't select-frame-set-input-focus do raise-frame?
>
> Perhaps. I just did cursory testing.


It does call raise-frame, but I get a bit curious. Was there something
in your testing that indicated that you needed another raise-frame or
was it "just to be sure"?

Re: How to jump to running emacs with emacsclient

[Juanma Barranquero]

On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 03:57, Lennart Borgman
<lennart.borgman@gmail.com> wrote:

> It does call raise-frame, but I get a bit curious. Was there something
> in your testing that indicated that you needed another raise-frame or
> was it "just to be sure"?

Neither. It was just that I started from

   emacsclient -n --eval '(raise-frame)'

and then needed to get the focus and I added it without checking
whether select-frame-set-input-focus already raised the frame. I
wasn't writing code, just trying to find a workaround for the OP's
request.

    Juanma

Re: How to jump to running emacs with emacsclient

[Chris Newton]

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Are you using metacity or compiz for your window manager? Metacity ignores
raise requests in many versions. I noticed that raise finally works well in
stock ubuntu 10.4 with gnome and compiz. Not sure about metacity though.

On Jun 27, 2010 3:56 PM, "Dan Davison" <dandavison7@gmail.com> wrote:

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

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Re: How to jump to running emacs with emacsclient

[Dan Davison]

Chris Newton <redshodan@gmail.com> writes:

> Are you using metacity or compiz for your window manager? Metacity ignores
> raise requests in many versions. I noticed that raise finally works well in
> stock ubuntu 10.4 with gnome and compiz. Not sure about metacity though.

I'm using gnome with compiz under ubuntu 10.04. I was surprised to learn
that Emacs could order the WM around in this fashion but it seems to
work perfectly. I haven't tried metacity as my compiz settings tend to
get screwed up when I switch compiz off and on again. As per the
subsequent discussion in the thread, I am now using the simplified
version

emacsclient -n --eval '(select-frame-set-input-focus (selected-frame))'

Dan

>
> On Jun 27, 2010 3:56 PM, "Dan Davison" <dandavison7@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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

Re: How to jump to running emacs with emacsclient

[Pranav Peshwe]

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On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 1:03 AM, Dan Davison <dandavison7@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?
>
>
Hi Dan,
           A crude but practical way to accomplish that is - open
emacs(or any app for that matter) in its own workspace and assign a
shortcut key in gnome to switch to that workspace.

HTH.
Best regards,
Pranav

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Re: How to jump to running emacs with emacsclient

[Pranav Peshwe]

On Jun 28, 12:33 am, Dan Davison <dandavis...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

Hi Dan,
           A crude but practical way to accomplish that is - open
emacs(or any app for that matter) in its own workspace and assign a
shortcut key in gnome to switch to that workspace.

HTH.

Best regards,
Pranav