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I use Pop OS 20.04 on my desktop. When I start Emacs on login, I run the command (server-start). So when I open a file using the command emacsclient <filename> it opens it in the currently running emacs session. I love this.

However, when I double click text files in the native file explorer a new Emacs session is started. How do I force all files to open in the same Emacs session?

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The details will depend on the particular file browser you're using, but you need to set the default program for opening text files to emacsclient, rather than emacs.

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  • Thank you. How do we do that? PopOS runs GNOME. I can't even set Emacs as the default editor. And I have tried updating the defaults.list and the update-alternatives method suggested on this site elsewhere. The best I could do was select Emacs as the default editor for .org files from the GUI. But I couldn't enforce Emacs to be the default editor for the system. Gedit is the default editor for my system.
    – Harsh Vardhan
    Feb 27, 2021 at 22:14
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    I don't know. That would be a good question for a Pop OS forum, I'm not familiar with it
    – Tyler
    Mar 1, 2021 at 13:05

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