Re: Getting xpdf point-and-click to go back to existing emacs window

[David Kastrup]

Nick Payne <address@hidden> writes:

> I've been setting up emacs and xpdf for use with lilypond 17.25 on
> Ubuntu 13.04, using emacs 24.3, and the Debian install files for xpdf
> 3.03 and libpoppler19. Most things seem to be working - I have syntax
> highlighting, I can run Lilypond with C-c C-l, and C-c C-s opens the
> PDF output in xpdf. But when I click on a hyperlink in the PDF output,
> what happens is that a new  emacs window opens with another copy of
> the ly source file and the cursor is positioned there. If I click on
> another hyperlink, yet another emacs window with yet another copy of
> the source opens...and so on.
>
> What do I need to configure to get the hyperlink to go to the ly
> source file that I already have open in emacs? I followed the
> instructions at
> http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/usage/configuring-the-system-for-point-and-click
> to do the configuration for emacs and xpdf.

Put

(server-start)

in your personal .emacs file.

-- 
David Kastrup