Re: possible to exchange server and client?

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 14.07.2008 um 14:47 schrieb anhnmncb:

> What I do is, run emacs in console, then M-x server-start.
> Startx, run emacsclient -c, then M-x server-start, it says:
>         The current server still has clients; delete them? (y or n)
> I answser y, then the frame is killed. But I don't want to kill this
> frame, I want server-start from it, so it becomes a server.

Here you see that all Emacs particles launched until now belong to  
one instance of GNU Emacs, that has something like "visible threads,"  
i.e., kind of rather independent "light-weight" processes that become  
visible on the GUI/X11 surface. Every frame, window, console thing  
has the same process ID, all can share the same buffers (write a very  
unique word into *scratch* buffer and select this buffer in console  
and all frames), and all are connected to one server! So a

        (server-start)

in your init file is OK. And it's really OK, because when you launch  
another Emacs, it will start its own and now on the system second  
server, giving you the option to let emacsclient (-f, --server- 
file=FILENAME or -s, --socket-name=FILENAME) work for this or for  
that server.


One problem exists: there does not seem to exist a way to select from  
emacsclient the frame in which a file is opened ...

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  Pete

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