GNU bug report logs - #1298
allow 'emacsclient -a "emacs --daemon && emacsclient -c"'

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> ics.uci.edu>

Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2008 18:25:04 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Done: Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> ics.uci.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #16 received at 1298 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> ics.uci.edu>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: 1298 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#1298: allow 'emacsclient -a "emacs --daemon && emacsclient -c"'
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:17:43 -0800 (PST)

Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA> writes:

  > >> It would be nice if some equivalent of: 
  > >> 'emacsclient -a "emacs --daemon && emacsclient -c"
  > >> would work.
  > >> That would allow one to ALWAYS use emacsclient. 
  > 
  > > Here's a quick hack that allows:
  > > emacsclient -a "emacs --daemon && emacsclient -c" FILENAME
  > > to work.  It is not complete yet, FILENAME does not get passed to the
  > > "&& emacsclient"
  > 
  > Here's an alternative:
  > 
  >    [ "$(emacsclient -e "'up" 2>/dev/null)" = "up" ] || emacs --daemon
  >    emacsclient -c FILENAME

I've been using something similar for a long time (even before
--daemon), but it seems that it's more elegant to use a single command
that shell hackery...
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