Re: point-and-click

[David Bobroff]

On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 11:04, Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> The point of using emacsclient is exactly that you open the file
> in the emacs process that is already up and running.

That's what I thought should happen.

> However, what you maybe missed is that you need to start the
> corresponding server in emacs.
> I have the following in my .emacs file:
> 
> ;;
> ;; Start the emacs server, so we can use emacsclient
> ;;
> (server-start)
> 

No, I have that line in my ~/.emacs file.

-David

> 
>     /Mats
> 
> David Bobroff wrote:
> > I finally decided to see if I could get point-and-click really working.
> > After reading the instructions in Appendix D I discovered that I did not
> > fully understand them:
> > 
> > Make sure that the environment variable XEDITOR is set to
> > 
> > emacsclient --no-wait +%l %f
> > 
> > I did not fully understand this at first.  A friend who understands
> > Linux better than I helped me out with this one.  This needed to be in
> > my ~/.bashrc file.
> > 
> > But I was getting errors.  If I have this 'emacsclient' line in my
> > ~/.bashrc file I get:
> > 
> > Xdvi Error
> > Error executing:
> > emacsclient --no-wait %l %f (I get real line numbers, of course)
> > /path/to/file.ly
> > 
> > If, however,  I use this line instead:
> > 
> > export XEDITOR="emacs  +%l %f" 
> > 
> > ...it works.  I can even use
> > 
> > export XEDITOR="emacs  +%l:%c %f" 
> > 
> > ...and get the cursor to land in the correct column (Emacs 21.2.1).
> > 
> > But, each time I do point-and-click I get a new instance of Emacs.  Is
> > this correct?  If so, it seems a bit awkward.
> > 
> > Any clarifications welcome.
> > 
> > -David
> > 
> > 
> > 
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