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Re: automatic selection of emacsclient/emacs?
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kgold |
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Re: automatic selection of emacsclient/emacs? |
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13 Jun 2005 18:27:52 GMT |
Dan Elliott <dan-underscore-elliott-at-cox-dot-net@spamispathetic.org> writes:
> Hattuari wrote:
> > Is there a clean way to get Emacs to start as a client when there is an
> > available server? I find it moderately annoying to have to look around to
> > see if there is already an instance of Emacs started in order to determine
> > if I should enter `emacs' or `emacsclient'. I much prefer running
> > emacsclient when I already have one instance of Emacs running. One option
> > is to try and sniff for emacs with ps and filter out the current processes
> > such as grep emacs, and (assuming the script I'm running is also called
> > emacs) the launch script. It would seem more correct to directly check to
> > see if the service is available. Is there such a capability?
>
> Will I get flammed if I ask what the benefit of running emacs as a
> client (opposed to the "usual" way) would be? Could this be an
> alternative to using TRAMP?
To Dan:
As your .emacs gets bigger, the emacs startup time can become several
seconds. With client/server, you just start emacs as a server once
per login, and the new emacs clients attach very quickly.
To Hattuari:
I use gnuserv/gnuclient, but this might help.
I use the command 'emacs' once to start the server at login. From
then on, I alias 'e' to gnuclient to start clients. Since I always
start the emacs server at login to read mail, my 'e' command never has
to check if the server is running.
--
Ken Goldman kgold@watson.ibm.com 914-784-7646
- automatic selection of emacsclient/emacs?, Hattuari, 2005/06/07
- Re: automatic selection of emacsclient/emacs?, Thorsten Bonow, 2005/06/08
- Re: automatic selection of emacsclient/emacs?, Jochen Küpper, 2005/06/08
- Re: automatic selection of emacsclient/emacs?, David Kastrup, 2005/06/08
- Re: automatic selection of emacsclient/emacs?, Dan Elliott, 2005/06/12
- Re: automatic selection of emacsclient/emacs?, Benjamin Rutt, 2005/06/12