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

[Nick Payne]

On 30/08/13 18:54, David Kastrup wrote:
> 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.

Thanks. That fixes it. Should this not be documented somewhere? I didn't 
find anything in the documentation, and a Google search for

"server-start" site:.lilypond.org

doesn't return any hits.