Package: emacs;
Reported by: Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org>
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 12:36:02 UTC
Severity: wishlist
Tags: confirmed
Found in versions 23.2.91, 24.5
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From: Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org> To: 7741 <at> debbugs.gnu.org Subject: bug#7741: 23.2.91; Please allow emacs to run emacsclient Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 12:39:57 +0000
At present, “emacsclient” is a reasonable replacement for “emacs”, in that emacsclient can be configured to run emacs in daemon mode if it’s not already running. But it is longer to type, harder to learn, and even after years of use, I find I have trouble remembering, sometimes to use it. It also looks odd to use emacsclient rather than emacs in configuration files like /etc/mailcap. In short, it’s yet another thing to remember. Most web browsers fix this problem nicely by using the same command to start the browser as to open a new window in that browser. It would be nice if emacs did the same, i.e. if emacs had a -client flag which made it work like emacsclient. Even if it did something as simple as passing the remaining arguments to emacsclient. In GNU Emacs 23.2.91.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.22.0) of 2010-12-23 on mord Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10900000 Important settings: value of $LC_ALL: nil value of $LC_COLLATE: nil value of $LC_CTYPE: nil value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil value of $LC_MONETARY: nil value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil value of $LC_TIME: nil value of $LANG: en_GB.UTF-8 value of $XMODIFIERS: nil locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix default enable-multibyte-characters: t Major mode: Text Minor modes in effect: buffer-face-mode: t flyspell-mode: t show-paren-mode: t savehist-mode: t minibuffer-electric-default-mode: t iswitchb-mode: t icomplete-mode: t global-auto-revert-mode: t desktop-save-mode: t smart-quotes-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t column-number-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Recent input: <right> <right> <right> <right> <right> <right> <right> <right> <right> <right> <right> <right> e o g : S-SPC C-x C-a <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> C-a <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> C-n C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-n C-n C-p C-p C-n C-n C-p C-p C-k C-k C-x C-s <help-echo> C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n M-x m e a c s <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> e m a c s - r e p o r t <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> r e p o r t - <return> Recent messages: Undo! [5 times] Saving file /home/rrt/.mailcap... Wrote /home/rrt/.mailcap Mark set [3 times] Saving file /home/rrt/.mailcap... Wrote /home/rrt/.mailcap Auto-saving...done Saving file /home/rrt/.mailcap... Wrote /home/rrt/.mailcap call-interactively: Text is read-only [11 times] Load-path shadows: /usr/local/share/emacs/23.2.91/site-lisp/auctex/tex-style hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/tex-style /usr/local/share/emacs/23.2.91/site-lisp/auctex/tex-buf hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/tex-buf /usr/local/share/emacs/23.2.91/site-lisp/auctex/context hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/context /usr/local/share/emacs/23.2.91/site-lisp/auctex/bib-cite hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/bib-cite /usr/local/share/emacs/23.2.91/site-lisp/auctex/tex-fold hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/tex-fold /usr/local/share/emacs/23.2.91/site-lisp/auctex/tex-jp hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/tex-jp /usr/local/share/emacs/23.2.91/site-lisp/auctex/context-nl hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/context-nl /usr/local/share/emacs/23.2.91/site-lisp/auctex/toolbar-x hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/toolbar-x /usr/local/share/emacs/23.2.91/site-lisp/auctex/tex-mik hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/tex-mik /usr/local/share/emacs/23.2.91/site-lisp/auctex/context-en hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/context-en /usr/local/share/emacs/23.2.91/site-lisp/auctex/texmathp hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/texmathp /usr/local/share/emacs/23.2.91/site-lisp/auctex/tex-info hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/tex-info /usr/local/share/emacs/23.2.91/site-lisp/auctex/tex-fptex hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/tex-fptex /usr/local/share/emacs/23.2.91/site-lisp/auctex/tex-font hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/tex-font /usr/local/share/emacs/23.2.91/site-lisp/auctex/latex hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/latex /usr/local/share/emacs/23.2.91/site-lisp/auctex/font-latex hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/font-latex /usr/local/share/emacs/23.2.91/site-lisp/auctex/tex-bar hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/tex-bar /usr/local/share/emacs/23.2.91/site-lisp/auctex/multi-prompt hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/multi-prompt /usr/local/share/emacs/23.2.91/site-lisp/auctex/tex hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/tex Features: (shadow sort mail-extr message sendmail ecomplete rfc822 mml mml-sec password-cache mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mailcap mail-parse rfc2231 rfc2047 rfc2045 qp ietf-drums mailabbrev nnheader gnus-util netrc time-date mm-util mail-prsvr gmm-utils wid-edit mailheader canlock sha1 hex-util hashcash mail-utils emacsbug multi-isearch dired-aux help-mode view imenu python-mode info-look info ansi-color compile dired skeleton longlines preview prv-emacs byte-opt warnings tex-buf noutline outline font-latex bytecomp byte-compile latex tex-style tex nxml-uchnm rng-xsd xsd-regexp rng-cmpct rng-nxml rng-valid rng-loc rng-uri rng-parse nxml-parse rng-match rng-dt rng-util rng-pttrn nxml-ns nxml-mode nxml-outln nxml-rap nxml-util nxml-glyph nxml-enc xmltok sgml-mode cperl-mode conf-mode newcomment make-mode vc-git face-remap filladapt flyspell sh-script executable auto-dictionary-autoloads dictionary-autoloads js2-mode-autoloads package reporter completing-help ff-paths uniquify paren savehist minibuf-eldef iswitchb icomplete autorevert time cus-start cus-load desktop server change-mode advice help-fns advice-preload php-mode derived etags cc-langs cl cl-19 cc-mode cc-fonts cc-menus cc-cmds cc-styles cc-align cc-engine cc-vars cc-defs speedbar sb-image ezimage dframe easymenu assoc lua-mode regexp-opt comint ring whitespace etags-update smart-quotes edmacro kmacro ispell ffap muse-autoloads emacs-goodies-el emacs-goodies-custom emacs-goodies-loaddefs easy-mmode devhelp preview-latex tex-site auto-loads tooltip ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel x-win x-dnd font-setting tool-bar dnd fontset image fringe lisp-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar mldrag mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core frame cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev loaddefs button minibuffer faces cus-face files text-properties overlay md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote make-network-process dbusbind system-font-setting font-render-setting gtk x-toolkit x multi-tty emacs) -- http://rrt.sc3d.org/
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