Re: How to install emacs server on ubuntu

[Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com>]

"Sven Bretfeld" <sven.bretfeld@gmx.ch> writes:

> Hi
>
> n179911 <n179911@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I have download the following script and cp it to /etc/init.d/emacsd
>> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsdInitScript
>
> I really don't see the advantage of this script. I've also tried it
> once. I merely start the daemon once I log in with 'emacs --daemon'
> under Ubuntu Karmic, and that's it. You can also let that command be
> executed by an auto-start script under Gnome, KDE or whatever. Once the
> daemon is started, you can do 'emacsclient -c' either by using alt-F2 or
> with a prepared icon.
>
> By the way, under Ubuntu you have to take care that you start the
> correct version of the client fitting to the version of the server,
> since you might have more than one Emacs version installed (emacs22,
> emacs23 and emacs-snapshot are available in the standard repo). In case
> you have, you should start daemon and client with 'emacs.emacs-snapshot
> --daemon' etc.

Alternatively use update-alternatives

>
> Good luck
>
> Sven
>

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