Re: emacsclient frame reuse

[jem <jere.mcdevitt@gmail.com>]

On Aug 4, 6:18 pm, "A.Politz" <poli...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Aug 4, 11:07 pm, jem <jere.mcdev...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > How can you detect if there is already a running frame with the newest
> > version?
>
> > Thanks
>
> > Jere
> > ~
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> EMACS=emacs-23.1
> EMACSCLIENT=emacsclient-23.1
> FLAGS=-n
>
> $EMACSCLIENT -e nil >/dev/null || $EMACS --daemon
>
> NR_FRAMES=$($EMACSCLIENT -e '(1- (length (frame-list)))')
>
> if [ $NR_FRAMES -eq 0 ];then
>     FLAGS="$FLAGS -c"
> fi
>
> $EMACSCLIENT $FLAGS "$@"
>
> There seems to be an invisible frame, representing the daemon or
> something.

Thanks, this works quite well.

Jere