Re: Is it possible to use emacsclient as the Gnome system editor?

[David Kastrup]

Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se> writes:

> Basically: yes. However with the current emacsclient you have to start
> emacs first.

Not true.  You can use `-a emacs' in the emacsclient invocation.

> There has currently been a discussion on the emacs devel list where
> I have tried to argue that in Emacs 22 emacsclient should be able to
> automatically start emacs when needed. I think most people there
> would agree it is a good (but for many not very important)
> thing. However it does not seem that it will make it into Emacs 22.

For the GNOME association, the above should do the trick perfectly
well.

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