brian@hall.CRAY.COM (Brian Utterback) (04/29/88)
What is the purpose of the emacserver and emacsclient? Can they be used to
edit a file on another machine across a network?
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> Date: Thu, 28 Apr 88 13:06:37 EDT > From: sun!uc.msc.umn.edu!darkstar!brian%hall.CRAY.COM (Brian Utterback) > > What is the purpose of the emacserver and emacsclient? The best use of emacsclient is when you are in a window system (e.g., X11 or suntools) and you have a copy of emacs running. From that copy issue the M-x server-start command. Start the window-system such that every new shell will inherit/execute the following two commands: setenv EDITOR emacsclient alias emacs $EDITOR For programs that invoke $EDITOR, you will be able to modify the file from inside of your already existing emacs. This reduces the start-up time to get at the file. Using emacsclient could also improve the performance of your machine (by not having to start another "heavy" process). Examples of programs that use $EDITOR vipw mh Saber-C IDETool > Can they be used to edit a file on another machine across a > network? No. The current emacsclient creates a socket on the local machine. Mark Baushke mdb@silvlis.com <-- finally, our domain is registered with NIC silvlis!mdb@sun.com Note: silvlis.com does NOT have an Internet Port
gaynor@ARAMIS.RUTGERS.EDU (Silver) (04/29/88)
The server/client scheme is also convenient on machines which labor under high loads, regardless of whether you're using a window system. With a load of 25, you could have a quick lunch while emacs starts up. :-) I've had luck with something along the following scheme, under BSD/SunOS with 18.49 on a glass tty: start an emacs server and suspend it define EDITOR to client run an application which runs $EDITOR suspend application continue server C-x # away the buffers that need it suspend server continue application Hmmm. I wonder how difficult it would be to make things so that emacsclient automatically suspends it's parent process and continues the server emacs... Any ideas? Regards, [Ag]
karl@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) (04/29/88)
Hmmm. I wonder how difficult it would be to make things so that emacsclient automatically suspends its parent process and continues the server emacs... Any ideas? It will be very difficult indeed. When the emacsclient suspends itself, your shell will hear about it and expect to give you a new prompt due to a normal job-stop. Convincing the shell that something else should be automatically considered the running foreground process could be quite a neat trick. About the only way to do it is to have emacsclient stuff a "fg %emacs" command into the terminal data stream via TIOCSTI - ugly and dangerous at best. --Karl