From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Gnuserv vs Emacsserver Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 12:04:33 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1227953103 28156 80.91.229.12 (29 Nov 2008 10:05:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 10:05:03 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 29 11:06:08 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1L6MiD-0007LP-2r for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Nov 2008 11:06:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46741 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L6Mh3-0002gn-95 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Nov 2008 05:04:53 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L6Mgd-0002gJ-TM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Nov 2008 05:04:27 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L6Mgb-0002fn-Il for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Nov 2008 05:04:26 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=53765 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L6Mgb-0002fj-A0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Nov 2008 05:04:25 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout3.012.net.il ([84.95.2.7]:48477) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L6Mga-00023P-PL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Nov 2008 05:04:25 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.i_mtaout3.012.net.il by i_mtaout3.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) id <0KB300B00APMT200@i_mtaout3.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Nov 2008 12:06:30 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.127.156.55]) by i_mtaout3.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) with ESMTPA id <0KB3008DPAQUBI40@i_mtaout3.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Nov 2008 12:06:30 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 9.1 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:60221 Archived-At: > From: Chetan > Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 14:26:28 -0800 > > 1. My version of gnuclient starts emacs (if it can find it) if it > cannot connect to a running instance. I believe "emacsclient -a" can do that, too. > 2. Irrespective of whether I am running emacs 21 or 22, it can still > connect. Do you really need to run Emacs 21 from time to time? > 3. The biggest irritant is that if I start another instance of emacs, > either by mistake or because I want to do something in a console > window, it clobbers my previous instance. You can arrange for it to not do that in your .emacs: just don't start the server if there's evidence that one other instance is already up and running. > 4. I need to change too many places in the system registry where it > invokes gnuclient. You could have a script called gnuclient.cmd that just invoked emacsclient.