From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Oliver Kappel Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacsclient command line use existing client Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 15:42:18 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87zje671q3.fsf@gmail.com> <87egvhk19v.fsf@web.de> <87lhppvxsj.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1410774355 10733 80.91.229.3 (15 Sep 2014 09:45:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 09:45:55 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 15 11:45:46 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XTSqv-0001Tq-8P for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Sep 2014 11:45:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58235 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XTSqu-0007PP-Ls for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Sep 2014 05:45:44 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36777) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XTSqQ-0007OD-Jk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Sep 2014 05:45:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XTSqJ-00050X-3p for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Sep 2014 05:45:14 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:59472) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XTSqI-0004yK-UO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Sep 2014 05:45:07 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XTSqG-0001Ef-82 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Sep 2014 11:45:04 +0200 Original-Received: from tmo-097-111.customers.d1-online.com ([80.187.97.111]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 15 Sep 2014 11:45:04 +0200 Original-Received: from ngreply by tmo-097-111.customers.d1-online.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 15 Sep 2014 11:45:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 41 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: tmo-097-111.customers.d1-online.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.90 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:+MZ9ucmTmLcocswnrkX2QV/Ml5E= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:99903 Archived-At: 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 $PATH while runing the mailto-script is different. Check your OS "autostart `emacs-client` command" - as you mentioned - and make sure your script uses the emacsclient from the same ./bin directory. Greetings, Oliver 12.09.2014 at 14:16 Tory S. Anderson wrote: > Thanks for prompting me to be more precise. When my OS starts I launch > a server with the autostart `emacs-client` command, and have the line > in my .emacs to ensure the server is started. As it should, opening > any number of new frames (or launching emacs-client again) will share > the same buffer list, etc. However, this shell script for launching an > email (apparently) starts a new server; it isn't sharing anything with > the other frames, and if I don't `kill-emacs` I end up with two > servers running. Clearly, not acceptable. > > Michael Heerdegen writes: > >> torys.anderson@gmail.com (Tory S. Anderson) writes: >> >>> elisp_expr="(mailto-compose-mail \"$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.