Re: Emacs server

[Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>]

On 2/17/12 6:42 AM, Thorsten wrote:
> Thank, that does the job. One more related question: I like to have a
> black background and white (or wheat) foreground (and I'm not such a fan
> of the color-themes because of their generally weak contrasts). In an X
> session, I would start emacs with -fg black and -bg wheat flags. In an
> console session, this looks strange, but starting emacs without those
> two flags already gives a black background and a white foreground.
>
> Now - what can I do when I want to have only one emacs-server running
> and start several emacsclients in the console as well as in the X
> session? Is there a way to start different emacsclients with different
> fg/bg colors without always changing the colors explicitly with M-x
> set-{background, foreground}-color when switching between the clients?

Does emacsclient handle the -name argument?  If so, you can set up different
foreground/background pairs in ~/.Xdefaults with different instance names.

-- 
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA