Re: emacs and point-and-click configuration in Gnome3

[David Kastrup]

Federico Bruni <address@hidden> writes:

> I've followed the instructions on Usage and it used to work fine until I
> installed emacs.
> Since I've installed emacs, every time I click on a textedit link in a PDF
> (using evince), emacs pops up, even though my EDITOR variable is
> /usr/local/bin/frescobaldi.

There is also the VISUAL variable.

> The command:
> gnome-open textedit:///etc/issue:1:0:0
>
> opens Frescobaldi, but:
>
> 1. the cursor stays on top of the file, regardless of the  values I put
> 2. when I close Frescobaldi window, a new Frescobaldi window pops up.

I think that Frescobaldi is supposed to do its own point-and-click deal,
but you may need to start the previewer from Frescobaldi for that.

> If I comment out the EDITOR variable in .bashrc, gnome-open launches emacs
> and:
>
> 1.  the cursor is correctly located in the position specified
> 2. two windows of emacs are opened at the same time (this happens also when
> I click on Evince)

Configure EDITOR to use emacsclient rather than emacs, and run M-x
server-start RET (or do it from .emacs) in the Emacs that is supposed to
catch the point-and-click.

-- 
David Kastrup