Questions tagged [emacs-daemon]
Starting Emacs in daemon mode
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Running Emacs server from snap installation
I've installed Emacs 26.2 using snap on Lubuntu 18.04. I'm trying to figure out how to get the server/client/daemon going.
I've done as instructed on EmacsWiki: "Emacs Client" by putting (server-...
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How to have list of program on `dired-do-shell-command` with Emacs server started by systemd
I'm using Emacs as a server started by the systemd user unit.
And on any dired buffer when i try to do dired-do-shell-command or dired-do-async-shell-command I cannot autocomplete any program and ...
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Launch an emacsclient instance in a new terminal window
I am using Sway/wlroots and I decided to switch to using terminal emacs for the forseeable future as there is no transparency in the xwayland version of emacs.
I previously bound emacs to run as a ...
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Emacs daemon preventing correct operation of saveplace
Writes to saveplace are not persisting after the emacs daemon stops.
Saveplace is configured in my init file as:
;; saveplace remembers your location in a file when saving files
(use-package ...
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How do I specify a daemon to start with alternate emacs version with emacsclient
I have found this script from here
#!/usr/bin/env zsh
# Checks if there's a frame open
emacsclient -n -e “(if (> (length (frame-list)) 1) ‘t)” 2> /dev/null | grep t &> /dev/null
if [ “$?”...
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Unable to use emacsclient with emacs server when running mac port of emacs
I am running the mac port version of emacs that I installed via homebrew (see here). I'm also trying to run the Emacs server to avoid long startup times.
To do this, I first run the server:
/...
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Global display line numbers mode not working
I can run (display-line-numbers-mode) and get line numbers but it doesn't work if I run (global-display-line-numbers-mode) (nothing happens). I have traced this to this function:
(defun display-line-...
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emacs daemon and ssh agent forwarding
In order to use ssh agent forwarding with emacs in daemon mode, running on a remote server, I've come-up with the following.
I have an alias for the client like so:
alias emacsclient="update_agent;/...
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extra frame in (visible-frame-list) when started in daemon mode, is causing problems
When I start emacs (emacs), and then eval (visible-frame-list), I get a list with one frame, the one that is visable. However if I start emacs as a daemon (emacs --daemon), and then eval (visible-...
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Using Emacs as a daemon (emacsclient) exhibiting weird behavior
Whenever I use Emacs as a daemon it seems like my init file isn't being fully loaded.
My keybindings in particular are acting very odd.
I use some unorthodox keybinds; for example:
Ctrl+u = ...
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emacs --daemon crashes when parent ssh session dies
I'm using emacs 26.1 (although I don't think this is a new issue with this verison).
Note - this is not the GTK bug which results in the daemon crashing if X Connectivity is lost. I am aware of that ...
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Emacs, .historian and root user
I use the following alias:
alias e='emacsclient -a '\'''\'' -t
alias sudo='sudo '
That way I can execute both, commands and aliases, with sudo, including e, which launchs the emacs server if it is ...
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Running Emacs as a client does not load my settings
I'm using the new systemd daemon option with Emacs 26. I have a problem, though. If I open a client instance (emacsclient -c) no config files (my .emacs) are loaded. So I don't see the usefulness in ...
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Unable to connect using emacsclient
I am starting the emacs server using
systemctl --now --user enable emacs
That server is running, if I run
systemctl --user status emacs
I got
$ systemctl --user status emacs
● emacs.service - ...
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Emacs daemon multiple buffers for same file
When running Emacs as a daemon, function find-file automatically selects and uses a preexisting buffer that is visiting the same file.
My problem is, when using the same buffer in multiple frames ...
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tool-bar in emacsclient
I have the following for ridding of the toolbar on startup in graphical mode in my init configuration:
(if window-system
(tool-bar-mode -1)
)
the issue:
it works fine (albeit slow...see this ...
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Remote emacs daemon setup?
I've got a "shell account" on a distant server and I've done a successful local user setup of Emacs 25. Now I'd like to have a bash alias that will start an Emacs daemon and give me (a) client(s) to ...
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Showing different project-trees in different instances of emacs daemon
At this point I usually hook up into my emacs-daemon using emacsclient -a "" -c "$@". When I also want to display my project using Neotree, this works well for only one instance but if I open a file ...
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Running emacs client: how do you know if the init files had errors loading
I use emacs 25, in nw mode, with "alias emacs='emacsclient -nw'"
When I add something to my personal.el, I do
brew services restart emacs
My issue is, if I make a big blunder inside my personal.el ...
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Preserving Layout Using emacsclient
If I spawn Emacs in --daemon mode, I can then use emacsclient to connect to the daemon from within a terminal window. If this then dies, I can reconnect my terminal and my Emacs session is still ...
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If emacsclient already open, new emacsclient should “inherit” its buffer list
My workflow involves splitting frames a lot because I use i3wm. If I use the emacs native make-frame-command, the new frame will be visiting the buffer I invoked the command in. If I call emacsclient ...
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Commandline identify 'classic' process without starting daemon?
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Emacs processes currently (since version=23?) can be run from a "normal"/non-Emacs commandline in 1 of 3 modes:
classic. (AFAICS this is my usage--please correct if there is a preferred term....
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How to gracefully kill clientless daemon from commandline?
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What to utter from commandline to cause a running clientless Emacs daemon/server process to gracefully shutdown--i.e., clean up after itself, then exit--without creating additional Emacs ...
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Changing the location of the emacs server socket
When I run emacs --daemon it creates a socket at /tmp/emacs1000/server
How can I tell it to use a different location?
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Emacs client can't find server in terminal
So, I'm trying to set up emacs as a server but I'm having trouble getting it to work from the terminal. If I run emacs --daemon on some terminal I can connect to it if I run the emacsclient from that ...
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Starting daemon without forking to background
I want to run an Emacs daemon under daemontools. So I need to create an Emacs process which
Basically does emacs --daemon
Does stay in the foreground
Displays the Messages buffer (or some other ...
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Restoring Emacs desktops with daemon + clients
How to use Emacs desktop functionality with emacs daemon + emacsclient instances?
I've enabled (desktop-save-mode 1) in my init file, and when I start the daemon I see messages like this:
Desktop: 1 ...
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Applying additional display settings on new client frames
I have the following function in my emacs config:
(defun *make-frame-pretty (frame)
"`*make-frame-pretty' will apply additional theme settings to make it prettier"
;; Add a fringe.
;; It's ...
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reopening emacsclient -t with desktop-save-mode doesn't save buffers/frames in place [duplicate]
I added (desktop-save-mode 1) to my custom.el towards the end to save buffers and frames. But I primarily use emacs --daemon and start an emacsclient -t. For some reason, if I use just Emacs the ...
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How can I get `emacs --daemon` to load the Spacemacs configuration?
I have configured my ~/.emacs so: It either launches default emacs via the default init.el, or runs the Spacemacs init.el
I run Spacemacs via a spacemacs shell script, ~/bin/spacemacs
#!/bin/sh
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server-start with dynamic server-name
I'm using (server-start) in my init.el, but I'd like to be able to launch multiple server instances, every time I launch emacs.
Today, server-start complains if the server is already launched.
It ...
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how to make emacs prompt me before closing the last emacs gui frame when running emacs as a daemon?
I know that if I set:
(setq confirm-kill-emacs 'y-or-n-p)
Emacs prompts me before I kill it.
But I want emacs to prompt me before I close my last gui frame (prompting me before killing any frame ...
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emacs --daemon is not loading gui elements
I defined emacsclient as default editor in .bashrc so emacs -daemon will be called upon startup:
export ALTERNATE_EDITOR=""
export EDITOR=emacsclient
But compared to a normal load without client, if ...
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Faces not set immediately after load-theme
I'm trying to set the faces of highlight-indent-guides automatically whenever a new theme is loaded by making small adjustments to the background color of the default face. I have everything working ...
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mangled terminal output after failing emacsclient / folding mode launch
I consistently get the following problem on Emacs 24.5.1 with folding package (version 20140401.3) for which I've found a workaround but would like to understand what was going on.
As you can see in ...
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Hide emacs icon when client is off
I am running emacs as daemon, in MacOSX, it works flawlessly but when I kill the client the icon remains in the dock as running. I searched around for a way to hide it when no client is running but I ...
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How to check for emacs being initialized in daemon mode?
I use emacs gui in daemon mode and also in standalone terminal mode. There is a package that I just want to use when I'm using emacs in terminal mode.
the problem is that I can't use (display-...
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problems connecting to an emacs daemon on RHEL
I am running into problems creating and connecting to an Emacs daemon on RHEL 6. I am using Emacs 23.1.1.
The daemon starts correctly:
emacs --daemon=foo
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Starting Emacs daemon.
… but ...
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how to start daemon with `--debug-init` or equivalent debugger?
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I'm trying to debug a problem that involves an Emacs config and daemon startup. But when I run
emacs --daemon --debug-init
from a console, the spew ends with
Loading desktop from /...
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Emacs 24.5.1 on Windows: How to use server mode?
I used to have Emacs 25.xx on my windows pc and was very happy with the daemon/server mode of emacs. Emacs started via batch-script on startup and everything worked fine -- on every subsequent call ...
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`server-start` hook?
Is there a hook to execute stuff after I've run emacs --daemon? I'd like to keep load stuff only when running emacs --daemon and not when running emacs.
I know it sounds like using square wheels, but ...
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Emacs (as daemon) doesn't load theme
Related: Emacs: GUI with emacs --daemon not loading fonts correctly
My init.el contains the following lines:
(require 'darktooth-theme)
(load-theme 'darktooth t)
If I start Emacs with
$ emacs
... ...
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workgroups, server mode, and emacsclient
I'm trying to use emacsclient in conjuction with the workgroups package for emacs. However, I have one major annoyance; whenever I invoke emacsclient -c from the command line and open a file, the file ...
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Edit file only once and close it
Is there a way to edit a file only once?
So that for example: I open it and its closed (the buffer is killed) after the window closes.
A clarification: I usually have an Emacs deamon running and open ...
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emacsclient directly start eshell command command line
Both of the following work to call a graphical/terminal eshell:
emacs -f eshell
emacs -nw -f eshell
Furthermore, this 2-step process also works:
`emacsclient -t -a '' /some/real/file/name
Metax ...
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Emacs daemon not working properly, Emacs server runs fine
Version
GNU Emacs 25.1.50.2 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.18.9) of 2016-04-25
Xubuntu 16.04, Linux kernel 4.4
In my .emacs I have the following settings
(require 'server)
(unless (server-...
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How to start in daemon mode and suppress interactive dialogs?
I love to start emacs in daemon mode with my first login and then have the same emacs process for all subsequent logins, be it graphical, on physical console or from the network via ssh.
But there is ...
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server-edit vs kill-buffer to kill an emacsclient buffer
I use emacsclient to open files from my webrowser (pdfs, text files etc). When I'm done with the file, I know I need to close it with C-x # (server-edit); if I use C-x k (kill-buffer) I get a warning ...
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How to make emacs running in daemon mode read my bashrc before start?
I run Emacs in the daemon mode as a user's systemd unit. However it won't read my environment variables. How to make it import my .bashrc first?
I have multiple paths added in there and want to be ...
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Restart emacs daemon from within emacs
Very much like Restart emacs from within emacs, except I'd like to do this for an emacs daemon and client.
Specifically, I'm interested in the terminal client, but of course being able to restart ...
