From: Jeff Horn <jrhorn424@gmail.com>
To: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
Cc: Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org>,
emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, Dan Davison <dandavison7@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [OT] emacsclient -t (was Re: [OT] Have you also got hooked by Vim?)
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 12:45:43 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=dBfT-Xm9T4fehDuvk-Aq7Cnr66t41OWLMZdnA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTik-jL7B30=3RzV5pSR=a1jwqVZUPiboPadd=FFS@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Jeff Horn <jrhorn424@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
>> Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org> writes:
>>
>>> Jeff Horn <jrhorn424@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 9:51 PM, Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org> wrote:
>>>>> alias emacs="emacsclient -t -a /usr/bin/emacs"
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for sharing this. My manual doesn't mention the -t flag. What
>>>> does it do? (I didn't know about -a, but it looks nifty)
>>>>
>>>
>>> Now that I consider this further (and read the emacs man page), I'm not
>>> sure if the -t flag is correct here. (It may be new to emacs 24).
>>>
>>> In any case, "-nw" is the tried and true flag for doing this.
>>
>> IIRC, -t is the same as -nw and is present from emacs 23.1 (maybe
>> earlier) onwards. Very useful when connecting from a non-graphical
>> terminal (e.g. a mobile phone) to an existing Emacs running on
>> X... something I do frequently via =screen= for emulating a persistent
>> connection.
>
> So IIUC, I have a windowed Emacsen running on a box where I work. If I
> run `emacsclient -t somefile.txt` from an SSH connection to that box,
> it uses the server that was started by the windowed emacs, but instead
> of opening the file in the windowed emacs, it re-routes it to my SSH
> session?
>
> This would be extremely useful to me. However, when I tried that on my
> box just now, the terminal session froze and the windowed emacs was
> brought to the front without the correct buffer being displayed...
> wonder what I'm doing wrong... This is in my bash profile:
>
> function ec(){
> emacsclient $1 --alternate-editor="" -t &
> }
>
> Any clues?
Always too quick to e-mail... the trailing & was causing issues. I
want this when I'm sitting at the box, but don't when I'm not. Time to
figure out how to write a conditional for bash...
--
Jeffrey Horn
http://www.failuretorefrain.com/jeff/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-21 17:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-21 17:41 [OT] emacsclient -t (was Re: [OT] Have you also got hooked by Vim?) Jeff Horn
2011-01-21 17:45 ` Jeff Horn [this message]
2011-01-21 17:54 ` Erik Iverson
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