Re: Adding with-editor to Emacs?

[Jim Porter]

On 9/1/2023 9:12 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Jonas Bernoulli <jonas@bernoul.li>
> > Cc: rms@gnu.org
> > Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2023 16:38:02 +0200
> >
> > I think the next step is to ask Eli and others, how they would want to
> > integrate the library / the functionality it provides.
>
> I'm probably missing something because if all we want is to allow
> child processes to use the current Emacs session as their editor, we
> just need to inject some environment variables into
> process-environment when running those child processes, and start the
> server.  Emacs knows very well where to find its corresponding
> emacsclient.  Why is there a need for a separate library?

I'm not totally sure *all* of what with-editor does, but it does let you 
do this over Tramp too (still using your local emacsclient). That 
requires a bit more magic to get it work.