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Re: Suggestion: Make emacsclient act as a new frame
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Leo |
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Re: Suggestion: Make emacsclient act as a new frame |
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Tue, 31 Jul 2007 11:11:58 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.110007 Emacs/23.0.0 (20070727) Fedora 7 (gnu/linux) |
On 2007-07-31 06:17 +0100, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> It would be nice if at some future time emacsclient was actually
>> interactive, functioning like a new frame on the principal emacs client,
>> rather than just blocking while you have to tab to the principal emacs
>> client to edit, then return. This makes quick editor jobs for things like
>> crontab -e much more convenient because you do not have to switch
>> windows/terminals, yet you still have the full functionality of emacs and
>> access to your other open buffers for purposes of cut/paste and so forth.
>
> You can customize the `server-window' to be a function that opens a new
> frame. Currently the only suggested one is pop-to-buffer which does the
> right thing for me (I have pop-uo-frames set to t). But we should probably
> add more, so suggestions welcome.
switch-to-buffer-other-frame seems work quite well too.
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Leo <sdl.web AT gmail.com> (GPG Key: 9283AA3F)