Re: confused about emacs 23 in daemon mode

[dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs)]

In article <4aac9a85$0$17751$ba4acef3@news.orange.fr>,
Bruno Barbier  <bruno.barbier.cs@begin_dom.orange.fr.end_dom> wrote:
>On 2009-09-13, Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net> wrote:
>> Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null> writes:
>>> Rodrigo Amestica <ramestica@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> it is so nice to have emacs starting so blazingly fast when using the
>>>> daemon and emacsclient combination. However it seems that every other
>>>> emacsclient I open is not an independent version of emacs and things get
>>>> intermixed. I think that in emacs parlance the terminology is 'frame', all
>>>> emacsclient instances are emacs frames.
>
>Thanks to emacsclient, you only have one emacs. The fact that you get
>a new frame or not is just a configuration setting.
>
>   (describe-variable 'server-window)
>
>I mean, the fact that things get intermixed is one goal of emacsclient
>(the other one being fast start up).
>
>>>> The main problems I have noticed under these circumstances is that 'C- h-i'
>>>> seems to be shared by all frames such that browsing in one frame will make
>>>> the others to move away from their own current info page.  
>
>Type M-n to open a new independent info buffer.
>And most jumping commands have a 'C-u' that jump into a new buffer.
>      
>    (info "(info)Create Info buffer")
>
>>>> And the mayor
>>>> show stopper is ECB. It seems that I cannot have 2 emacsclients running
>>>> their own ECB session.
>
>I would use one emacs by ECB and an other one for planning, taking
>notes, etc.  You can then make emacsclient use the one you want or
>setup only the third emacs as a server depending on your needs.
>
>    From the emacs info manual:
>
>    |    If there is more than one Emacs server running, you can specify a
>    | server name with the `-s NAME' or `--socket-name=NAME' option to
>    | `emacsclient'.  (This option is not supported on MS-Windows.)
>
>    (info "(emacs)Invoking emacsclient")
>
>

Using emacsclient is pretty new to me -- and you seem to
be playing some nice tricks with it.

Please, could you elaborate a bit (or better, much more) on:

  .  the above that you wrote.

  .  your varied uses (and those of others you've seen or
     heard of) of emacsclient (and other things like it).

  .  You used the term "server".  What with the original
     emacs-run throwing off emacs-clients that seem to
     be NOT independent from each other -- sharing buffers,
     etc.  For vocabulary-creation, would that make it into
     some kind of subtype of "server"?  (Obvious to all: am
     pretty ignorant about servers, clients, etc, which is
     why I'm probing, to learn more.)

  .  Anything else you want to say.  (With the idea that 
     maybe RMS could munge it into extra doc for the manual
     or tutorial or something?)


THANKS!

David