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

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Message #30 received at submit <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>
To: "" <pupeno <at> pupeno.com>
Cc: 646 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#646: No arguments
Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:33:30 +0200

J. Pablo" Fernández wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 16:27 +0200, Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> I use a pre-packaged Emacs, but I can try to give it a chance, where can
> I get the patch?

I will send them to you privately.

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