Re: Emacs RPC

[Sebastian Rose]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> writes:
> I'm running a lot of Emacs-based servers here and there, and I
> communicate with them via "emacsclient --eval".  But it just occurred to
> me that it would be much more elegant to have an `emacs-client-rpc'
> function, so that I wouldn't have to parse the output from emacsclient
> in a shell.
>
> I've peeked through the info files and I couldn't find anything.  And it
> looks like it would be a simple enough thing to add to server.el.
> Anybody mind if I add a function like, er,
>
> (server-eval-at HOST COMMAND)
>
> to server.el?


There is org-protocol (still uses emacsclient though).  Don't know if
that's sufficient for your use case.

See:
http://orgmode.org/manual/Protocols.html#Protocols
http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/org-protocol.html
http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-protocol-custom-handler.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7Z2PiAcgh8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2xjwxEj-c8


A custom handler is a function you may call through emacsclient.  It is
triggered by an advice around `server-visit-files'.

It's used widely already, but I'd be glad to rewrite it to not use
emacsclient anymore.



    Sebastian


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