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Re: Using emacsclient -t as $EDITOR from within Emacs
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Suvayu Ali |
Subject: |
Re: Using emacsclient -t as $EDITOR from within Emacs |
Date: |
Fri, 6 Sep 2013 11:40:58 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2012-12-30) |
Hi Nikolai,
On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 11:08:20AM +0200, Nikolai Weibull wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 10:57 AM, Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 02:59:21PM +0700, Yuri Khan wrote:
> >> On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 2:10 PM, Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
>
> >> > I'm very curious, what does this offer you over simple C-x C-f. The way
> >> > I see it, emacsclient is useful to have access to single Emacs instance
> >> > whenever you want to edit something, so you can connect to the instance
> >> > from anywhere. But if you are already in an emacs frame, how does this
> >> > add anything?
>
> >> Many external programs, most notably version control systems such as
> >> Subversion and Git, like to call an external editor when they need
> >> some intermediate text that cannot be reasonably expected to be passed
> >> via the command line or via a pre-authored file.
>
> > Yes I'm aware of that. That is why I myself use emacsclient most of the
> > time. The OP however wants to call emacsclient from an emacs frame as
> > an asynchronous command. I fail to see any usecase for that. If I want
> > to edit something from an emacs frame, I would just open it.
>
> That wasn’t what I was asking for. I led with that case, as that’s
> what it boiled down to, or so I thought, but I did explain that “I
> want to be able to execute commands that invoke $EDITOR, which I’ve
> set to a shell script that invokes emacsclient -t, from
> within Emacs (for example, from Dired) that’s running as a server”.
Almost all the cases I can think of where executing shell commands may
call $EDITOR, I can also think of very nice emacs libraries that provide
very mature integration. A few examples:
- emails: Gnus, notmuch, vm, message-mode for simple composing, etc,
- using version control: vc-*, magit, etc,
- sudoedit/visudo: tramp
The only one I can think of without a mode like that is when I call
$EDITOR from my pager (less). But of course running a pager from Emacs
does not make sense. From the above examples, I can't imagine I would
call any of those from dired. So I'm still a bit confused about the use
case. Could you please give an example of the command you are using?
Sorry if I'm being a bit dense, I'm just very curious and would like to
know.
Thanks,
--
Suvayu
Open source is the future. It sets us free.
- Using emacsclient -t as $EDITOR from within Emacs, Nikolai Weibull, 2013/09/04
- Re: Using emacsclient -t as $EDITOR from within Emacs, Felix Dietrich, 2013/09/05
- Re: Using emacsclient -t as $EDITOR from within Emacs, Nikolai Weibull, 2013/09/06
- Re: Using emacsclient -t as $EDITOR from within Emacs, Suvayu Ali, 2013/09/06
- Re: Using emacsclient -t as $EDITOR from within Emacs, Yuri Khan, 2013/09/06
- Re: Using emacsclient -t as $EDITOR from within Emacs, Suvayu Ali, 2013/09/06
- Re: Using emacsclient -t as $EDITOR from within Emacs, Nikolai Weibull, 2013/09/06
- Re: Using emacsclient -t as $EDITOR from within Emacs,
Suvayu Ali <=
- Re: Using emacsclient -t as $EDITOR from within Emacs, Nikolai Weibull, 2013/09/06
- Re: Using emacsclient -t as $EDITOR from within Emacs, Suvayu Ali, 2013/09/06