1999-10-03 12:39:42 +00:00
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.TH EMACSCLIENT 1
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.\" NAME should be all caps, SECTION should be 1-8, maybe w/ subsection
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.\" other parms are allowed: see man(7), man(1)
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.SH NAME
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emacsclient \- tells a running Emacs to visit a file
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B emacsclient
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.I "[options] files ..."
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.SH "DESCRIPTION"
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This manual page documents briefly the
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.BR emacsclient
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command.
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This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution
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because the original program does not have a manual page.
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Instead, it has documentation in the GNU Info format; see below.
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.PP
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.B emacsclient
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works in conjunction with the built-in server of Emacs.
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.PP
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You typically do not call
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.B emacsclient
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directly. Instead, you set the environment variable EDITOR
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to
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.B emacsclient
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and let programs like 'vipw' or 'bug' or anything run
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it for you, which will use an existing Emacs to visit the file.
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For
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.B emacsclient
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to work, you need an already running Emacs with a server. Within Emacs, call
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the function
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`server-start'. (Your `.emacs' file can do this automatically if you
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add the expression `(server-start)' to it.)
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When you've finished editing the buffer, type `C-x #'
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(`server-edit'). This saves the file and sends a message back to the
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`emacsclient' program telling it to exit. The programs that use
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`EDITOR' wait for the "editor" (actually, `emacsclient') to exit. `C-x
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#' also checks for other pending external requests to edit various
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files, and selects the next such file.
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If you set the variable `server-window' to a window or a frame, `C-x
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#' displays the server buffer in that window or in that frame.
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.SH OPTIONS
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The programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long
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options starting with two dashes (`-').
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.TP
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.B \-n, \-\-no-wait
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returns
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immediately without waiting for you to "finish" the buffer in Emacs.
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.TP
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.B \-e, \-\-eval
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do not visit files but instead evaluate the arguments as Emacs
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Lisp expressions.
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.TP
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.B \-a, \-\-alternate-editor=EDITOR
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if the Emacs server is not running, run the specified editor instead.
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This can also be specified via the `ALTERNATE_EDITOR' environment variable.
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.TP
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.B \-d, \-\-display=DISPLAY
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tell the server to display the files on the given display.
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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The program is documented fully in
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.IR "Using Emacs as a Server"
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available via the Info system.
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.SH BUGS
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If there is no running Emacs server,
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.B emacsclient
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cannot launch one. I use a small Perl script instead of raw
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.B emacsclient
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to do it (it works only with systems which have BSD sockets, which is fine
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for Debian GNU/Linux).
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.SH AUTHOR
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This manual page was written by Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@debian.org>,
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for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
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.SH COPYING
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This manual page is in the public domain.
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