From: Yoichi Nakayama <yoichi.nakayama@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Can emacsclient send environment variables even if it doesn't create a frame?
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2023 22:45:09 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAF5D8-sTbKPC4mYkYA0e5sFf+14Wo-GEQFUwus-+6YzJ7aFP7w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
Currently, emacsclient sends environment variables to the server process only
if it is going to create a frame. So it is impossible to refer to environment
variables when calling EDITOR=emacsclient from other programs.
In contrast, if EDITOR="emacsclient -t" or EDITOR="emacsclient -c" (that is,
emacsclient creates new frames), you can refer emacsclient's environment
variables via server-buffer-clients.
Is it possible to eliminate the following conditional branching by create_frame
in lib-src/emacsclient.c?
if (create_frame)
{
for (char *const *e = environ; *e; e++)
{
send_to_emacs (emacs_socket, "-env ");
quote_argument (emacs_socket, *e);
send_to_emacs (emacs_socket, " ");
}
}
Use case:
Refer GIT_INDEX_FILE to show correct diff even when emacsclient is invoked
by `git commit -a` or `git commit filename` (where GIT_INDEX_FILE points to
a temporary index file), along with the commit message edit buffer.
https://github.com/magit/magit/pull/4888
--
Yoichi NAKAYAMA
next reply other threads:[~2023-03-29 13:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-03-29 13:45 Yoichi Nakayama [this message]
2023-03-29 15:46 ` Can emacsclient send environment variables even if it doesn't create a frame? Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-01 13:37 ` Yoichi Nakayama
2023-04-01 13:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-01 14:28 ` Yoichi Nakayama
2023-04-01 15:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-01 14:54 ` Yoichi Nakayama
2023-04-01 15:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
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