GNU bug report logs - #49195
Starting Emacs if required from emacsclient.desktop

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Peter Oliver <p.d.oliver <at> mavit.org.uk>

Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2021 20:00:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Peter Oliver <p.d.oliver <at> mavit.org.uk>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Starting Emacs if required from emacsclient.desktop
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2021 20:59:31 +0100 (BST)

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]
At present, we provide emacs.desktop (which starts a new instance of Emacs), and emacsclient.desktop (which connects to an existing instance of Emacs).  This is problematic if a users wants to associate a particular file type with Emacs in their desktop file manager, because they can’t know in advance which will be correct.

Attached is a patch which enhances emacsclient.desktop so that it will start a new instance of Emacs if none is found to be running.  Users who like to reuse an existing Emacs can then always use emacsclient.desktop.

There was some discussion of how far to go with this on emacs-devel recently, but, if I understand correctly, the parts in this patch were not controversial.

-- 
Peter Oliver
[0001-From-.desktop-files-reuse-a-frame-or-start-a-new-Ema.patch (text/plain, attachment)]
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