Re: emacs daemon.. but quietly

[Richard Riley]

tomas@tuxteam.de writes:

> On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 02:24:44PM +0100, Gary . wrote:
>> Is there any way to stop emacs, run with --daemon, printing out
>> details about all of the config files it is loading? At the moment I
>> see
>
> If I understand you correctly, you want to suppress stdout/stderr output
> of emacs --daemon?
>
> You might just redirect that to /dev/null like so:
>
>   emacs --daemon > /dev/null 2>&1
>
> (or did I misunderstand you completely?)
>
>>   ("emacs" "--quiet")
>>   Loading charset...
>>   Loading charset...done
>> (etc.) which is ugly since I want to start the server, when
>> appropriate, when I start my login shell by doing something like
>>
>>   function serverExists {
>>     TMPDIR=${TMPDIR-/tmp};
>>     TMPFILE="${TMPDIR}/ps-output.$$";
>>
>>     ps > ${TMPFILE}
>>     grep -q 'emacs-X11' ${TMPFILE}
>>     SERVER_STARTED=$?;
>>     rm ${TMPFILE}
>>
>>     return $SERVER_STARTED;
>>   }
>>
>>   if serverExists ; then
>>    export EMACS_SERVER="emacs already started"
>>   else
>>    emacs --daemon --quiet
>>    export EMACS_SERVER="emacs started here"
>>   fi
>>   echo $EMACS_SERVER
>>
>> in my .bashrc.
>
> Hm. I don't quite understand this part. Besides, it seems a roundabout
> way. What are you trying to achieve?
>
> Regards
> -- tomás
>

As is emacs --daemon IMO.

In emacs 23 using the alternate editor setting. My "edit" script is:-

,----
| #!/bin/bash
| # edit
| export GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=1
| exec emacsclient --alternate-editor="" -c "$@"
`----

Its in the man page for emacsclient and the wiki.

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