Re: Compile Mode and "host" Emacs

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Óscar Fuentes <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 21:22:34 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Ah, but you could use emacsclient to provide the absolute file name of
> > the running Emacs, like this:
> >
> >   emacsclient --eval "(concat invocation-directory invocation-name)"
> >
> > and then use the result to invoke a fresh instance of the same binary.
> 
> This communicates with an Emacs instance that is acting as a server, if
> any, right?

Yes, of course.  Presumably, the person who needs this has an Emacs
running, just not one that's on PATH.