Re: Reuse frame with emacsclient and/or use shell aliases when finding files

[Thorsten Jolitz]

Robert Thorpe <rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com> writes:

> Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Jacob Gerlach <jacobgerlach@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> What I think that I want to do is figure out how to reuse an existing
>>> GUI frame if it exists.
>>
>> A bit OT, but something I always wanted to find out:
>>
>> Say I have 5 emacsclients connected to the same server, some started by
>> me on the command line, others by external programs, and I want those
>> external programs to reuse the specific emacsclient instance they
>> started for further code evaluation, showing other documents etc - how
>> do I do that?
>
> I don't think you can do that without modifying the Emacs server code
> directly.  That might not be so hard though, you could use the -e option
> to emacsclient to send info to the bits within Emacs that you change.

I thought maybe by addressing the instance with its PID, but could not
figure out how. Anyway, thanks for the answer.

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cheers,
Thorsten