Re: gnuserv/gnuclient for GNU Emacs 21.2.1 on Red Hat 9?

[Jonathan]

"D. D. Brierton" <darren@dzr-web.com> writes:

> On Sat, 05 Apr 2003 20:09:01 +0000, Jonathan wrote:
> 
> > Does it have emacsclient instead?
> 
> Ooh ... yes, it does:
> 
>     $ rpm -ql emacs | grep emacsclient
>     /usr/bin/emacsclient
>     /usr/share/emacs/21.2/etc/emacsclient.1
> 
> I'm unfamiliar with emacsclient - what does one have to put in ~/.emacs to
> get it to work?
> 
>     $ emacsclient test.txt
>     emacsclient: can't find socket; have you started the server?
> 
> (The above tried with an already running emacs.)
> 
> Best, Darren
> 

Just put:

(server-start) 

or from an already running emacs: M-x server-start

Then you can use 'emacsclient' or, as I prefer, 'emacsclient
--nowait'. I don't seem to have a man page on it, but there is some info
on this somewhere in the emacs manual, if I remember correctly.

-- 
Jonathan