Re: Suggestion: Make emacsclient act as a new frame

[Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com>]

On 2007-07-31 06:17 +0100, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> It would be nice if at some future time emacsclient was actually
>> interactive, functioning like a new frame on the principal emacs client,
>> rather than just blocking while you have to tab to the principal emacs
>> client to edit, then return.  This makes quick editor jobs for things like
>> crontab -e much more convenient because you do not have to switch
>> windows/terminals, yet you still have the full functionality of emacs and
>> access to your other open buffers for purposes of cut/paste and so forth.
>
> You can customize the `server-window' to be a function that opens a new
> frame.  Currently the only suggested one is pop-to-buffer which does the
> right thing for me (I have pop-uo-frames set to t).  But we should probably
> add more, so suggestions welcome.

switch-to-buffer-other-frame seems work quite well too.

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Leo <sdl.web AT gmail.com>                         (GPG Key: 9283AA3F)