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Re: Reuse frame with emacsclient and/or use shell aliases when finding f
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Thorsten Jolitz |
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Re: Reuse frame with emacsclient and/or use shell aliases when finding files |
Date: |
Sat, 31 May 2014 17:54:21 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) |
Robert Thorpe <rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com> writes:
> Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Jacob Gerlach <jacobgerlach@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> What I think that I want to do is figure out how to reuse an existing
>>> GUI frame if it exists.
>>
>> A bit OT, but something I always wanted to find out:
>>
>> Say I have 5 emacsclients connected to the same server, some started by
>> me on the command line, others by external programs, and I want those
>> external programs to reuse the specific emacsclient instance they
>> started for further code evaluation, showing other documents etc - how
>> do I do that?
>
> I don't think you can do that without modifying the Emacs server code
> directly. That might not be so hard though, you could use the -e option
> to emacsclient to send info to the bits within Emacs that you change.
I thought maybe by addressing the instance with its PID, but could not
figure out how. Anyway, thanks for the answer.
--
cheers,
Thorsten
Re: Reuse frame with emacsclient and/or use shell aliases when finding files, Thorsten Jolitz, 2014/05/31