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I know that emacs can open a file while evaluating an expression:

emacs file --eval "(toggle-frame-maximized)"

However I failed to replicate this with emacsclient:

1.emacsclient can open a file:

emacsclient file

2.And it can also evaluate an expression:

emacsclient --eval "(toggle-frame-maximized)"

3.But a problem happens when the two are put together:

emacsclient file --eval "(toggle-frame-maximized)"

It starts to report error and does not open the file. So is it possible to use emacsclient to open a file while still do eval?

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After several attempts I think I found the solution, basically just put everything into eval and concatenate them use progn:

emacsclient --eval "(progn (find-file \"file\") (toggle-frame-maximized))"
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According emacsclient's manual, when --eval is given, the arguments are interpreted as a list of expressions to evaluate, so you can also use emacsclient --eval "(find-file \"file\")" "(toggle-frame-maximized)". – xuchunyang Dec 23 '16 at 8:10
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This method of just evaluating find-file "file" is great and simple (which is important). However, it has the disadvantage that the buffer is not considered a "server-editing-buffer", so some of the nice in-built emacsclient machinery does not work — for example, when you call emacsclient -c --eval "(find-file \"file\")" "(other-elisp-functions)" , and then close the frame, the buffer you just opened is not killed (irrespective of whether it was open before or not), unlike with emacsclient -c file. – aplaice Feb 12 at 18:05
    
I think that using server-visit-files — e.g. (server-visit-files '(("file" . nil )) proc) — might be a solution, except that we'd need to know the process id of the client, which I have no idea how to get. – aplaice Feb 12 at 19:16

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