zoo@aps1.spa.umn.edu (david d [zoo] zuhn) (12/07/90)
Archive-name: gnu/emacs/gnuserv/1990-12-06
Archive: cs.umn.edu:/pub/gnu/emacs/gnuserv.tar.Z [128.101.224.1]
Original-posting-by: zoo@aps1.spa.umn.edu (david d [zoo] zuhn)
Original-subject: Re: emacs server.
Reposted-by: emv@ox.com (Edward Vielmetti)
Jack> In article <1990Nov30.212956.27042@bigsur.uucp>, fwpui2@bmerh453.BNR.CA (Larry Greenfield) writes:
Jack> |> The way I would like this process to work is for the server to
Jack> |> simply insert the file into the buffer and immediately issue a
Jack> |> server-done to emacsclient. I would also like to retain the
Jack> |> original implementation for mail, etc.
Jack> Andy Norman <ange@hplb.hpl.hp.com> makes a fine little extended
Jack> emacsserver, called ``gnuserv.'' It does just exactly what you request
Jack> here (the client is named gnuclient; if you invoke "gnuclient file",
Jack> it waits; if you do "gnuclient -q file" it doesn't. Set $EDITOR to
Jack> the former; alias the latter to something easy to type).
Jack> It also includes a thing called gnudoit, which passes an arbitrary
Jack> elisp form to Emacs. For example, I have my mail-notifier do a
Jack> "gnudoit '(mh-inc-folder)'" when I boink it, so that Emacs
Jack> incorporates my mail.
This software is now available for anonymous FTP from cs.umn.edu
(128.101.224.1 for the nameserver impaired) as
pub/gnu/emacs/gnuserv.tar.Z.
Please contact me (zoo@aps1.spa.umn.edu) if you have any problems
getting the software.
Please contact Andy Norman (ange@hplb.hpl.hp.com) if you have any
problems getting the software to work.
david d [zoo] zuhn Univ. of Minnesota Dept. of Astronomy
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