RE: emacsclient command line use existing client

[Subhan Michael Tindall]

Are you setting the name of the server in your startup script? Maybe this 
option will help:

'-s server-name'
'--socket-name=server-name'
Connect to the Emacs server named server-name. The server name is given by the 
variable server-name on the Emacs server. If this option is omitted, 
emacsclient connects to the first server it finds. (This option is not 
supported on MS-Windows.)



> -----Original Message-----
> From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+subhant=familycareinc.org@gnu.org
> [mailto:help-gnu-emacs-bounces+subhant=familycareinc.org@gnu.org] On
> Behalf Of Tory S. Anderson
> Sent: Friday, September 12, 2014 5:17 AM
> To: Michael Heerdegen
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: emacsclient command line use existing client
> 
> Thanks for prompting me to be more precise. When my OS starts I launch a
> server with the autostart `emacs-client` command, and have the line in my
> .emacs to ensure the server is started. As it should, opening any number of
> new frames (or launching emacs-client again) will share the same buffer list,
> etc. However, this shell script for launching an email (apparently) starts a 
> new
> server; it isn't sharing anything with the other frames, and if I don't `kill-
> emacs` I end up with two servers running. Clearly, not acceptable.
> 
> Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:
> 
> > torys.anderson@gmail.com (Tory S. Anderson) writes:
> >
> >> elisp_expr="(mailto-compose-mail \"$mailto\")"
> >>
> >> emacsclient -a "" -c -n --eval "$elisp_expr" \
> >>    '(set-window-dedicated-p (selected-window) t)'
> >>
> >> But somehow when I run this it starts a new emacsclient rather than
> >> using the one I have running. If I remove the `-a ""` then nothing
> >> happens at all. Why won't it connect to my existing emacsclient?
> >
> > What exactly do you mean with "existing emacsclient"?  You must have a
> > running server.  A running Emacs is not enough.
> >
> > Michael.


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