GNU bug report logs - #646
emacsclient with no args to behave like -a

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "J. Pablo Fernández" <pupeno <at> pupeno.com>

Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 10:20:03 UTC

Severity: wishlist

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #10 received at submit <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>
To: "J. Pablo Fernández" <pupeno <at> pupeno.com>,
        646 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#646: No arguments
Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:27:22 +0200

J. Pablo Fernández wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> It would be nice if emacsclient, when called with no arguments, would
> just run the alternate editor. I've configured emacs as my alternate
> editor so emacsclient for me is basically a "open this in an existing
> emacs or run one otherwise", the only problem for that to work
> completely is having it working with no arguments.

The patched version of emacsclient that I distribute with Emacs+EmacsW32 
does that. If you are on another platform it would be nice if you tested 
that code there.
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