Re: Change in emacsclient behavior

[David Kastrup]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     For the UI, emacsclient can:
>
>     1. Create and become a tty for Emacs (with at least one frame).
>     2. Create and raise a graphical frame for Emacs on the current $DISPLAY.
>     3. Raise an existing graphical frame for Emacs on the current $DISPLAY, or
>     elsewhere if no such exists.
>     4. Try to raise an existing frame, or create one if it doesn't exist.
>     5. Become a pipe for Emacs (which may or may not produce any terminal
>     output).
>
> These all seem useful in principle.  5 seems hard and I doubt it is
> worth implementing.

It would make it possible to configure an Emacsclient invocation as a
$PAGER command.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum