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[h-e-w] Re: How to direct runemacs.exe to use an existing instance of em


From: Jeffery B. Rancier
Subject: [h-e-w] Re: How to direct runemacs.exe to use an existing instance of emacs
Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 13:21:17 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3 (windows-nt)

"Bacchu, Anjan" <address@hidden> writes:

>     How do I direct runemacs.exe to use(re-use) a running instance of emacs 
> instead of
>
> creating a new process and frame to display a file.
>
> For eg, when I type
>
> "runemacs.exe readme.txt"
>
> from the command line, I expect that the file opens up within
>
> an existing instance of emacs. But I find that runemacs.exe opens another 
> instances of emacs.exe
>
> in another window.

Use /emacs-21-3/bin/gnuclientw.exe instead.  You'll need to start
gnuserv when starting emacs.  I have the following setting in my
~/.emacs file:

(require 'gnuserv)
(setq gnuserv-frame (selected-frame))
(gnuserv-start)

-- 
Thanks,
Jeff

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