Re: Gnuserv vs Emacsserver

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Chetan <Chetan.xspam@xspam.sbcglobal.net>
> Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 14:26:28 -0800
> 
> 1. My version of gnuclient starts emacs (if it can find it) if it
> cannot connect to a running instance.

I believe "emacsclient -a" can do that, too.

> 2. Irrespective of whether I am running emacs 21 or 22, it can still
> connect.

Do you really need to run Emacs 21 from time to time?

> 3. The biggest irritant is that if I start another instance of emacs,
> either by mistake or because I want to do something in a console
> window, it clobbers my previous instance.

You can arrange for it to not do that in your .emacs: just don't start
the server if there's evidence that one other instance is already up
and running.

> 4. I need to change too many places in the system registry where it
> invokes gnuclient.

You could have a script called gnuclient.cmd that just invoked
emacsclient.