Re: Starting emacs in ediff mode.

[Richard G Riley]

"Juanma Barranquero" <lekktu@gmail.com> writes:

> On Jan 27, 2008 2:17 PM, Richard G Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Personally I must admit to being surprised that emacsclient doesn't
>> invoke emacs if there is not an existing emacs running - that one
>> ommission makes it tricky to set up emacsclient as default viewer/editor
>> in many cases.
>
> Of course you can run emacsclient so it will start Emacs if it is not
> running; that's what the --alternate-editor option is for. The trick,
> of course, is that --alternate-editor doesn't run Emacs as a server
> connected to the emacsclient instance that started it. 

Thanks for mentioning that. Staring right there at me - I had completely
missed that option. Suddenly all my defaults work a lot better :-;