Re: Gnuclient vs Emacsclient

[Lennart Borgman]

Paul Michael Reilly wrote:
> I've recently had Eclipse inflicted on me.  The source file editor is 
> just abysmal for an experienced Emacs user.  I noticed that Alan 
> Donovan created an Eclipse/Emacs plugin that uses gnuclient.  I built 
> it for an x86_64 on FC5 and it does not work.  So there will be some 
> development effort, hopefully small.
>
> But it occurred to me that I ought to find out what the emacsclient vs 
> gnuclient story is.  As near as I can tell, you all appeared to 
> wrestle with adopting gnuserv and abandoning emacsserver about six 
> years ago. And gnuserv now exists in about 4-5 flavors derived from 
> Andy Norman's original work.
>
> Left to my own devices I am inclined to pick one of the gnuserv 
> variants and get it working within the current Emacs CVS tree and then 
> retire emacsclient/emacsserver.  Probably Alan Donovan's, FWIW
>
> Comments?  Suggestions?
>
> -pmr

Emacsclient/server is part of CVS Emacs. Gnuclient/server is not. 
Unfortunately emacsclient/server does not work on w32 yet, so there the 
only option is to use gnuclient/server.