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Re: gnu/emacs client --create-frame somehow?
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Thorsten Bonow |
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Re: gnu/emacs client --create-frame somehow? |
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Mon, 01 Dec 2003 12:03:27 +0100 |
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>>>>> "Stefan" == Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> What I'm looking for is some way of simulating a --create-frame
>> option and then calling emacsclient/gnuclient --create-frame
>> FILE
Stefan> Since server.el and emacsclient.c do not offer any way to
Stefan> add new options like --create-frame, your best bet is
Stefan> probably something like
Stefan> emacsclient --eval '(find-file-other-frame "FILE")'
Yes, this opens up a new frame, but then I am loosing the
[+line-number] option of gnu/emacsclient. My problem started when
writing with LaTeX in Emacs, previewing with xdvi: With the
inverse search feature, switching between a line in the document
and the preview of this part of your document is possible. So I
wouldn't want to loose the line-number information or open up a new
frame every time I switch. But in other cases---say when clicking
on a "mailto:"-tag in my web-browser, I want a new frame for
composing an email.
Stefan> But maybe you have a point that it should be possible to
Stefan> add new options, kind of like what is done with
Stefan> `command-switch-alist'.
After some testing I think gnuclient's option to set "gnuserv-frame"
to "gnuserv-visible-frame-function", which is opening a new frame
only if there isn't one already opened on your (virtual) screen
and is using the visible frame otherwise, is my preferred
solution. Alas, this is not working even with emacsclient from CVS.
On the other hand, I think emacsclient's approach of taking either
file and line number arguments *or* evaluating lisp expressions is
cleaner than gnuclients -f and -e options for executing a function
or evaluating lisp together with file arguments---you never now
what is done first.
So I wouldn't add options to emacsclient, but having convenience
lisp functions for the problems above would be nice.
Stefan> Stefan
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Re: gnu/emacs client --create-frame somehow?, Kevin Rodgers, 2003/12/01