From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Vaidheeswaran C Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacsclient not integrated into modern window systems Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2015 14:24:10 +0530 Message-ID: References: <61e558ef-6edb-4fd5-af12-7fa0d470c9c4@googlegroups.com> <55A16994.20107@gmail.com> Reply-To: vaidheeswaran.chinnaraju@gmail.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1436691273 18540 80.91.229.3 (12 Jul 2015 08:54:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2015 08:54:33 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 12 10:54:21 2015 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 1ZED1g-00027E-QD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Jul 2015 10:54:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50036 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZED1f-0003Yt-U0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Jul 2015 04:54:19 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54649) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZED1X-0003Yo-54 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jul 2015 04:54:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZED1S-0002ln-5t for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jul 2015 04:54:11 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:52388) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZED1R-0002lF-Un for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jul 2015 04:54:06 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZED1P-0001zE-Ev for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jul 2015 10:54:03 +0200 Original-Received: from 106.206.138.177 ([106.206.138.177]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 12 Jul 2015 10:54:03 +0200 Original-Received: from vaidheeswaran.chinnaraju by 106.206.138.177 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 12 Jul 2015 10:54:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 28 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 106.206.138.177 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/31.3.0 In-Reply-To: <55A16994.20107@gmail.com> 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:105624 Archived-At: On Sunday 12 July 2015 12:38 AM, Vaidheeswaran C wrote: > $ emacsclient --alternate-editor="" file.txt The below variation seems like a good improvement. emacsclient --alternate-editor="" -cF "((top . 0) (left . 0) (width . 99) (height . 28))" For plugging in the frame parameters, I used M-: (current-frame-configuration) and hand picked the few that you see. For some reasons, including (fullscreen . maximized) in the frame parameter has no intended effect on the editor window. It is not clear to me whether it is a limitation or a bug. ---------------------------------------------------------------- The External Editor plugin (Thunderbird) now uses the above commandline. In addition, my .emacs has the following line. (push '("\\.eml\\'" . message-mode) auto-mode-alist)