>>>>> "Hattuari" == Hattuari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hattuari> Is there a clean way to get Emacs to start as a client when there
Hattuari> is an available server? I find it moderately annoying to have to
Hattuari> look around to see if there is already an instance of Emacs
Hattuari> started in order to determine if I should enter `emacs' or
Hattuari> `emacsclient'. I much prefer running emacsclient when I already
Hattuari> have one instance of Emacs running. One option is to try and
Hattuari> sniff for emacs with ps and filter out the current processes such
Hattuari> as grep emacs, and (assuming the script I'm running is also called
Hattuari> emacs) the launch script.
Hi,
this has been asked before and several solutions/approaches have been
posted. Try googling around for them.
One is already coming with GNU Emacs: There are emacs.bash/emacs.csh scripts in
the etc sub-directory of the source tree which should do in principal what
you're
trying to achieve.
Hattuari> It would seem more correct to directly check to see if the service
Hattuari> is available. Is there such a capability?
For this you could try something like
emacsclient --eval t > /dev/null 2>&1
echo $?
The exit status $? is only 0 if the client was able to connect to an running
emacs server.
Hope this helps.
For ages now I'm working on a little script which tries to solve this problem in
a more general way (supporting both GNU Emacs/emacsclient and XEmacs/gnuclient),
making it possible to start a mail/news reader from it, open up a new frame/tty
etc. Never got around finishing it since leaving university [7 years ago :-)]
It's basically working, but not nearly finished. If you're interested I can mail
it to you.
Toto
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