Questions tagged [emacs-daemon]
Starting Emacs in daemon mode
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How to disable desktop-save prompt when ending session
I am trying to avoid having desktop-save prompt me when shutting down emacs. If I am running in daemon mode and then do emacsclient -e '(kill-emacs)', it hangs waiting on a response to the Save ...
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Let emacsclient try to reconnect after running alternate_editor
If I set alternate_editor to an empty string, emacsclient runs "emacs --daemon" and then tries to reconnect. However, I want to run it a specific emacs executable that is not in my path. If ...
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Org Mode bullets indentation display differently between normal and server mode
Does anybody has any clue why the same configuration yield different appearances between normal vs server-mode ?
Here's the normal mode (the correct one)
And here's when run Emacs in server-mode
(...
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What is emacs : daemon, emacsclient, tcp-server?
I want to know about why they are used? , what are they?
what is daemon in emacs,
Why Should/shouldnot i use "emacs" instead of "emacsclient --create-frame" ?
what is client and ...
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How to open sourcegraph files directly in Emacs on Linux
There's the open-in-editor extension on sourcegraph, which
Adds a button at the top of files in both Sourcegraph app and code hosts like GitHub (when the Sourcegraph browser extension is installed) ...
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emacs daemon Error reading from stdin
I messed up my emacs and having trouble run emacs --daemon properly. I am using GNU Emacs 26.3.
M-x returns Error reading from stdin.
I have following lines on .zshrc:
export ALTERNATE_EDITOR="&...
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Emacs as daemon will not use font config
When using emacs as daemon,
systemctl --user start emacs-27.service
emacsclient -c
and also the following directly:
emacs-27 --fg-daemon
emacsclient -c
the font config in :~/.emacs.d/init.el will ...
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emacs 27 (lucid toolkit) daemon crashes every couple of minutes
Some variant of this has been asked before - emacs daemon crashing when it has been built with Gtk3 etc - but I couldn't find any solution to this.
I've built Emacs 27.1 from source on Xubuntu 20.04 ...
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emasc daemon does not load my init.el completely but emacs do
When I run emacs, everything is Ok, my init.el is read. However, after starting a daemon (emacs --daemon), an emacsclient GUI frame (emacsclient -c) is not configured for the following setting:
font ...
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emacsclient crashes on start
I use doom emacs. Starting emacs normally works just fine.
Having an emacs daemon and trying to use emacsclient -c causes the following error:
*ERROR*: Symbol’s function definition is void: persp-mode-...
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How are a daemon and a server different in Emacs?
After running (server-start) in Emacs, I evaluated
(daemonp)
and
(server-running-p)
The first one returns nil, whereas the second one returns t. So, how are a daemon and a server different in Emacs? ...
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Emacsclient not loading init file changes
Context: I just updated Emacs via homebrew; I don't remember the steps I followed to get Emacs to run via daemon originally, but since the update it doesn't seem to be using it anymore (i.e. quitting ...
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emacs-daemon opened buffers get affected by other buffers
I am using emacs-daemon. Lets say many files have already opened using emacsclient.
=> When I open a minibuffer on one emacs frame, all the opened emacsclient buffers get frozen and I cannot type any ...
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Accidentally started emacs --daemon, and couldn't kill it!
I was testing emacs --daemon functionality, and called two daemons alive. I wanted to kill them, with
$ pgrep emacs
275760
275857
$ pkill emacs
$ pgrep emacs
276788
276847
# It's alive again!
# Lemme ...
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Using multiple tty emacsclient with "C-x 5" other frame commands
I'm using emacs in daemon mode on a server and connecting over ssh in a terminal console (tty) window (i.e. no GUI support).
I'm invoking emacsclient using in the tty window (window here refers to OS ...
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Make Emacs systemd service kill when logging out/shutting down
I am trying to use desktop-save-mode together with emacs daemon.
;; save desktop before quitting
(add-hook 'kill-emacs-hook (lambda () (desktop-save "~/.emacs.d/")))
But when I log out of the ...
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Preload problem: Emacs as daemon in X
Background:
I want to use emacs like tmux which can run as persistent session as well as shorten the time for me to start bringing up emacs when I want to (as inspired by these: Emacs and a Tmux ...
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How to refresh emacs server after changes to init file or packages?
I recently managed to get Emacs server to work. But after I worked on my init file and changed some code in one elpa package, the changes were not visible.
I did the load-file for ~/.emacs, and ...
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set-frame-size does not work on emacsclient
I have set up Emacs daemon on Windows 10. My Emacs version is GNU Emacs 25.3.1
I have some code in my init.el which resizes the frame size automatically when Emacs starts up. The code is
;; Select a ...
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emacs.service will delay 2 mins before `reboot/shutdown` my computer
I use emacs a lot and restart it since I change my init.el from time to time, so I started to use emacs.service about one year ago using command like
systemctl --user enable emacs.service
systemctl -...
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Switching Emacs server's socket without leaving existing emacs gui
I would like to switch between emacs socket without leaving the GUI. I am able to start two emacs daemon session by doing the following:
In xterm1:
emacs --daemon="one"
In xterm2:
emacs --daemon="...
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Segmentation fault when creating new frames
I am reproducibly experiencing segmentation faults on Emacs 26.3 under Debian Buster when creating a new frame, which seems to be related to setting fonts for new frames.
In order to illustrate I ...
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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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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?
summary
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 ...
