From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sven Utcke Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs(client|server) vs. gnu(client|server) Date: 18 Sep 2002 11:16:54 +0200 Organization: University of Hamburg -- Germany Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1032341200 29275 127.0.0.1 (18 Sep 2002 09:26:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 09:26:40 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17rb6T-0007bu-00 for ; Wed, 18 Sep 2002 11:26:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17rb6n-0005Bp-00; Wed, 18 Sep 2002 05:26:57 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!nntp.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-han1.dfn.de!news-ham1.dfn.de!news.uni-hamburg.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 36 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: kogs31.informatik.uni-hamburg.de Original-X-Trace: rzsun03.rrz.uni-hamburg.de 1032340614 18546 134.100.12.153 (18 Sep 2002 09:16:54 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.uni-hamburg.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 18 Sep 2002 09:16:54 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 Original-Xref: nntp.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:105020 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:1575 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:1575 Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes: > Sven Utcke writes: > > > So far so well. But yesterday I then moved bodily to kogs2, and > > needed to edit something on the display of kogs2. I _thought_ I would > > be able to use gnuclient to signal the emacs on kogs31 to open a > > window on kogs2 to let me edit, but not so. So, does this mean that > > the above can not be done, or only that I am to dump to understand the > > manual? > > So you used gnudoit to have Emacs do make-frame-on-display? Nope, I actually never used gnudoit at all. Should I? What I tried were variants of: kogs2>/home/utcke% echo $EDITOR gnuclient -h kogs31.informatik.uni-hamburg.de -r/r:kogs2: (which clearly show that I am using an outdated version of tramp :-) > Maybe Emacs didn't have permission to open a frame on your display. Quite possibly. I'm using ssh to tunnel the X-display --- but how do I tell Emacs about this? Hmm... There is no option --display which I could give to gnuclient... Still baffled Sven -- _ __ The Cognitive Systems Group | |/ /___ __ _ ___ University of Hamburg | '