Re: emacsclient not integrated into modern window systems

[Vaidheeswaran C]

I am on Debian Wheezy and I can "Open With" both emacs or gnuclient.

     /usr/share/applications/gnuserv.desktop
     /usr/share/applications/emacs23.desktop

I also remember playing around with text editor alternatives sometime
back.

    https://wiki.debian.org/DebianAlternatives

Shouldn't you raise the issue with your specific distribution?


On Saturday 11 July 2015 08:54 AM, Rusi wrote:
> Student of mine asked me if its possible to have emacs open from the file 
> browser. [By default it opens with gedit]
> For 1/2 hour we tried to find properties/open-with etc to make it emacsclient
> but to no avail
> 
> After a lot of struggle the best I came up with was the below steps.
> So... If installing emacs (using say apt) makes emacs an established app to 
> open
> (some) mimetypes, why is emacsclient not setup similarly?
> 
> [I realize that this question may be more suitable for ubuntu/gnome/ etc 
> folks...
> Still thought I'd ask]
> 
> -------------------------
> 0. Put (server-start) into init.el
>    Check that now 'emacsclient somefile' from a shell starts the same emacs
> 
> 1. Put the following (between the --------- and ------------- )
> into the file ~/.local/share/applications/emacs.desktop
> ---------
> [Desktop Entry]
> Name=EmacsClient
> GenericName=Text Editor
> Comment=Edit text
> MimeType=text/english;text/plain;text/x-makefile;text/x-c++hdr;text/x-c++src;text/x-chdr;text/x-csrc;text/x-java;text/x-moc;text/x-pascal;text/x-tcl;text/x-tex;application/x-shellscript;text/x-c;text/x-c++;
> Exec=emacsclient -n -a emacs %F
> Icon=emacs
> Type=Application
> Terminal=false
> Categories=Development;TextEditor;
> StartupWMClass=Emacs
> ---------
> 
> 2. Now in file browser, click on a file you want opened in emacs and
> click properties -> open-with
> Here you should find 'EmacsClient' somewhere down.
> You can make it default
> 
> Note: Between 1 and 2 you may need to reboot (actually logout of X-windows is 
> enough)
>