Re: emacsclient command line use existing client

[Oliver Kappel <ngreply@gmx.net>]

Hello,

my guess: emacsclient inside your script runs another installed
instance of emacs as you started emacs server with. With option -a ""
this instance will start another emacs in deamon mode. Probably the
$PATH while runing the mailto-script is different.

Check your OS "autostart `emacs-client` command" - as you mentioned -
and make sure your script uses the emacsclient from the same ./bin
directory. 

  Greetings, Oliver

12.09.2014 at 14:16 Tory S. Anderson wrote:

> Thanks for prompting me to be more precise. When my OS starts I launch
> a server with the autostart `emacs-client` command, and have the line
> in my .emacs to ensure the server is started. As it should, opening
> any number of new frames (or launching emacs-client again) will share
> the same buffer list, etc. However, this shell script for launching an
> email (apparently) starts a new server; it isn't sharing anything with
> the other frames, and if I don't `kill-emacs` I end up with two
> servers running. Clearly, not acceptable.
>
> Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:
>
>> torys.anderson@gmail.com (Tory S. Anderson) writes:
>>
>>> elisp_expr="(mailto-compose-mail \"$mailto\")"
>>>
>>> emacsclient -a "" -c -n --eval "$elisp_expr" \
>>> 	'(set-window-dedicated-p (selected-window) t)'
>>>
>>> But somehow when I run this it starts a new emacsclient rather than
>>> using the one I have running. If I remove the `-a ""` then nothing
>>> happens at all. Why won't it connect to my existing emacsclient?
>>
>> What exactly do you mean with "existing emacsclient"?  You must have a
>> running server.  A running Emacs is not enough.
>>
>> Michael.