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Re: emacsclient not integrated into modern window systems
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Rusi |
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Re: emacsclient not integrated into modern window systems |
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Sat, 11 Jul 2015 04:12:50 -0700 (PDT) |
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On Saturday, July 11, 2015 at 4:24:52 PM UTC+5:30, Rasmus wrote:
> Rusi writes:
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> > Student of mine asked me if its possible to have emacs open from the
> > file browser. [By default it opens with gedit]
> > For 1/2 hour we tried to find properties/open-with etc to make it
> > emacsclient
> > but to no avail
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> > After a lot of struggle the best I came up with was the below steps.
> > So... If installing emacs (using say apt) makes emacs an established app to
> > open
> > (some) mimetypes, why is emacsclient not setup similarly?
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> You can basically replace call to Emacs with emacsclient -ca ''. I also
> use various .desktop files for starting Emacs, Gnus, EMMS etc in Gnome-3.
The setup I described is working (best that I know).
I am asking not how-to but why-to.