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Re: Start emacs without opening a window (X11)
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: Start emacs without opening a window (X11) |
Date: |
Wed, 12 Sep 2007 12:44:10 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
>> > Is there a possibility to start Emacs without opening a window?
>> > I want to start the Emacs server from my .emacs and then use only
>> > emacsclient to pop up a new window.
>> > XEmacs knows an option "-unmapped" which does exactly what I want, but I
>> > haven't found anything similar in Emacs.
>>
>> It seems that there's no other way than to launch emacs -nw in a
>> screen(1) and forget about it. Since Emacs has become a true server, it
>> may be a good idea to had a `-daemon' option or something like that.
>>
>> Any opinion?
> It would be great to be able to do this. Karoly said on this list that
> the way to implement this is to implement a special kind of display
> that does not output anything.
> We just need someone that is interested to work on this...
Basically, it'd be like -batch except without the `noninteractive' and
such stuff.
Stefan