Questions tagged [emacsclient]
emacsclient is a program which allows the user to connect to the Emacs Server. This is useful when using Emacs as the default editor on Unix-like systems, as it allows Emacs to be invoked without creating a new process, allowing the reuse of shared buffers and command history.
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Evaluating emacsclient code (emacs-everywhere) on Mac OS X
I'm on Mac OS X (Sonoma).
When I try running (from iTerm2):
emacsclient -e -c '(+ 3 2)'
I get the appropriate result (5).
But when I run
emacsclient -e -c '(emacs-everywhere)'
I get ERROR: Searching ...
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How to use emacsclient with emacs -nw, all from the same shell?
Just the other day I did
$ emacs -nw file1
Then later on I did ^Z to suspend it, and was back in the shell.
And then I wanted to do
$ emacsclient -n file2
and have file2 there, ready in emacs when I ...
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`--init-directory` is only working with runemacs.exe but not with emacsclientw.exe on Windows
A symbolic link on windows for emacsclientw.exe with the following flags:
C:\Users\XXX\bin\emacs-29.3\bin\emacsclientw.exe --init-directory "~/Dotfiles/emacs/.emacs.d/" -n -c -a ""
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Emacs server crashes every 1-2 minutes
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The problem is that systemd fails to start emacs.service, and kills it after a timeout period of 90s. Why systemd fails to start emacs.service, I don't know.
I have a problem which was raised ...
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emacsclient cannot open web links with org-open-at-point or browse-url
emacsclient cannot open web links using neither org-open-at-point or browse-url. It does work, however, from a standalone Emacs session. I get no relevant messages in the Messages buffer, nor from ...
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How can I list all connected emacsclients?
If I have two emacsclients connected to an Emacs server, is there any way to list them?
The variable server-clients displays this when an emacsclient is connected.
server-clients is a variable defined ...
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emacsclient says "No connection could be made.." [duplicate]
(I'm not sure if this is a windows-only problem, may other OSs just don't crash as often)
I used to start one emacs window and my .emacs has a line (server-start) which starts the server. Then I open ...
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Why does M-x and C-x b get stuck?
Recently, I experience that M-x and C-x b gets stuck, meaning I can't move up or down in the list; only the middle item is highlighted
This is both M-x (counsel-M-x) and C-x b (ivy-switch-buffer)
This ...
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How to modify an emacs window frame title from the command line to manage multiple servers and clients?
I am trying to setup a few different emacs servers on my system for different activities like emails, org, programming.
I found the --set-frame-parameters should take care of it, but I have not been ...
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Calling a function from one emacsclient can't start Edebug from another emacsclient. Terminal is locked error
I use GNU Emacs 27.1 on Ubuntu 22.04.4, where I use i3 with several emacsclients opened in different terminals, while emacsdaemon is running in background.
After setting Edebug instrumentations into ...
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Imitating `emacs /path/to/folder/` behavior with emacs client for project configuration file recognition
To save some time and flashing white screen at startup, I use the emacs daemon and launch a emacs client. However, I have the following project-based workflow that seems to require that I use the non-...
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How to switch to a buffer from terminal with a unique partial name
I have a buffer with the name very-long-name-xyz-etc. This buffer is the only buffer whose name contains xyz.
From terminal I can switch to that buffer using the following
emacsclientw -cna runemacs --...
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Error when using emacs in background process: [1] + suspended (tty output) emacs
I get this error when I try to open any file in the background using emacs:
[1] + suspended (tty output) emacs file
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In what ways can Emacsclient freeze the server?
Often I find my Emacs server frozen and I end up resolving it by exiting Emacsclient.
Can Emacsclient somehow freeze the Emacs server?
EDIT: ok, I've found one way to freeze the Emacs server. If I ...
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how to get emacsclient to behave like emacs?
I don't like that emacsclient keeps buffers open. Is there a way so when I C-x C-c out of a session, it behaves like a regular emacs instance and kills all associated buffers? It'd also be nice if ...
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emacsclient vs. Chromebook: must manually switch to window
On Linux normally I can do
$ emacsclient --no-wait file.txt
and voila, there I am sitting in emacs editing file.txt before you know it.
But not on ChromeOS Linux. There I need to manually switch to ...
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How to use emacsclient to ask for a password
When I run vs-push (C-x v P) the program ssh-askpass gets execute to ask for the password of the SSH key. There are several different implementations. I am wondering if I can use emacsclient to ...
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Is it possible to use Microsoft dev tunnels to connect to an emacs server running on Azure?
I'm in an environment where Tramp/ssh is not possible as a means of remote editing. However, developers using VSCode are able to connect their local versions of vscode to the remote vscode server ...
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start emacsclient with specific window geometry
I am trying to convert my existing emacs setup to a client/daemon configuration.
A lot works as intended, but I do not manage to set the frame geometry to a fixed size. I do have the following in my ....
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Emacsclient.exe -- How Load elisp from Command Line Argument --"-l" Option Not Recognized
Windows 7
emacs 28.2
Is there a way to load an elisp program from the command line when running the emacsclient?
emacsclient.exe doesn't recognize the "-l" command line option.
This works: \...
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client always pops up a msgbox before connecting
My Emacs server uses a non-localhost IP address to listen for potential TCP connections.
Each time I run emacsclientw.exe, the message box
will pop up.
Is there any way to avoid it?
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Why is emacsclient not reusing the existing frame?
I have emacs running as a daemon (using launchctl), and I can use emacsclient --socket-name=socket -n -r -a '' and open a frame just fine. But if I run it again (say, to open some file), it opens ...
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Custom `command-line-1` for `emacsclient`
I've put a custom definition of command-line-1 in my early-init.el which works for for calling emacs but not for calling an emacsclient. How can I make it work in the latter case?
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Emacsclient cannot connect to running emacs daemon
I have a problem connecting to my emacs daemon.
Here is the situation :
I am on nixos
I have an emacs-29.1 daemon running with "emacs-29.1 --daemon" as a user service.
Here is the output of ...
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Emacs Keeps Data Even After I Close It + Doesn't Reload `.emacs`
Even after I close emacs with C-x C-c, it seems that it keeps some state saved: When I open it again, I can, for example, still see the old content of the *Messages* buffer. Also, it doesn't seem to ...
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How to open file from windows explorer in a new frame with emacsclient
How do I achieve that files opened from Explorer with emacs are always opened in a new frame?
I tried making a link that has the target <path/to/emacs/bin>/emacsclientw.exe --create-frame. When ...
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custom-set-faces not working for client
I have a custom (custom-set-faces ...) section in my ~/.emacs file. When I run emacs this section seems to get completely ignored since the custom colours don't get set. But if I go to ~/.emacs, ...
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Do you know good SOAP (wsdl) client for Emacs?
Do you know good SOAP (wsdl) client for Emacs?
I try C-x C-e but get error:
(soap-load-wsdl-from-url "http://www.dneonline.com/calculator.asmx?WSDL")
progn: Symbol’s function definition is ...
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Some Icons Don't Show Up When Running in Server/Client Mode
I am writing my own config from scratch in emacs. It's not a very complicated config so far. I have installed all-the-icons font. It works just fine when I launch emacs directly and start working in ...
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emacsclient: error accessing server file "~/.emacs.d/server/server"
wsl Ubuntu cannot connect when using emacsclient to connect to emacs server.
My emacs init.el file settings are
(setq server-socket-dir "~/.emacs.d/server")
and I see the following when ...
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emacsclient and EAF, at the same time
EAF (Emacs Application Framework) is not compatible with emacsclient, it says on the web page.
, but I don't understand why;)
I can't find a reasonable explanation why these two can't be enabled at ...
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Backspace triggers C-h in emacsclient
When I run a client in a terminal with emacsclient -nw, for some reason Backspace triggers C-h. This doesn't happen with emacs -nw or with the client running in a window. In both cases, as expected, ...
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how to run emacsclient on windows in the terminal
i cannot use emacsclient on windows 10.
Starting it with the gui client works well but trying to start it in command line mode from a terminal, for example running
emacsclient -nw -c
is there a ...
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Emacs application doesn't play well with emacs daemon
Using the zsh function
emacs () {
visible_frames () {
emacsclient -a "" -e '(length (visible-frame-list))'
}
change_focus () {
emacsclient -n -e "(select-frame-set-input-...
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How can I load properly full configuration with GUI elements and desktop parameters with `emacs --daemon` and `emacsclient -c`
Everything works fine when using regular Emacs. Now when I try to use the same init.el file with emacs --daemon and emacsclient -c I get an error.
I have thought about using different configuration ...
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How can I handle an emacs org-babel snippet triggering emacsclient
I want to call an external tool which will eventually invoke $EDITOR to do its thing. However from inside an org-babel code block this fails because while executing the code block the emacs I'm ...
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How to debug emacsclient?
Sometimes emacsclient fails with an error like:
$ emacsclient .gitlab-ci.yml
Waiting for Emacs...
*ERROR*: Args out of range: 63695, 1, 1173
How can I debug this? emacsclient has no debug option, no ...
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Magit cannot commit. emacsclient on PATH. Pop! OS
magit-status sees the repo just fine, and I can even push to Github, or make a branch. I can also commit through the git cli no problem.
However, before I can even write my commit message on magit I ...
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setting up a remote emacs pairing session without access to the filesystem [duplicate]
I'm just wondering if it's possible to setup an emacs pairing session over ssh where in one session, I have access to the filesystem but the other person I'm pairing with doesn't?
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Preventing emacsclient eval from messing up my terminal
I use emacs as info viewer from the terminal, but if the info page does not exist (or there is any other error) the terminal (regardless of Kitty or Konsole) becomes hardly usable, not properly ...
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`C-x C-;` freezes emacs
This hasn't been happening every time, though once it starts it's consistent while emacs is running at least. It claims to be bound to comment-line as usual, but I can't actually run it through C-h k ...
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emacsclient starts a new instance instead of contacting the server started by systemd
Log into Gnome
emacs-server is started by systemd, using the default configuration of my distribution (Fedora 36):
[Unit]
Description=Emacs text editor
Documentation=info:emacs man:emacs(1) https://...
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How to always work from a daemon and always reuse an existing frame? (bonus: do it with chemacs2)
I'm new to emacs. I'm a spacemacs implant, really love ORG mode and evil mode. Been using for the past year or so.
I've read some of the emacs documentation, which is fantastically written. But I'm ...
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Emacs Daemon Multiple user on Mac best practices
I'm new to Emacs, so apologies if this is covered elsewhere.
I'm running latest macOS 12.4; and downloaded emacs.app from emacsformacosx.com so I'm on Emacs 28.1-4 .
I have an admin user, which I ...
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Is there a way to create a emacs shotcut that runs a specific terminal command before opening emacs?
a friend of mine recomended that I use a program called obsidian to make notes,and I quite liked the idea, but i didn't like the program. I have been searching and it seeams to me that org-roam in ...
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Z-Order of Emacs Client Not Layered Top-Most
System & related settings:
Fedora 35 (using Cinnamon Desktop)
Emacs 27.2
focus mode: "sloppy" with "raise-on-click" disabled
Contrary to all other applications, including the ...
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Custom org-capture find headerline function error, wrong number of arguments
So, I managed to get my headline retrieval function fixed, so now the function searches and finds my header lines, but when I select the one I want to use.. it oddly throws back this apply: Wrong ...
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How do I make org capture prompt for specific header target?
I need help writing a function that makes Org Capture prompt me of what it should place the capture to a specified header in my tasks org file (basically I need it to search through the specified org ...
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Running a program from elisp that runs `emacsclient` set on `$EDITOR`
I'm automating some work tasks, and many of them consist of calling kubectl edit on different objects.
kubectl edit basically opens your $EDITOR which I have configured to be emacsclient.
My question ...
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What are the differences between multiple ways to "close" an emacsclient?
As a standalone instance (without daemon mode) I close my emacs via C-x C-c (save-buffers-kill-terminal).
This works also with emacsclient and I see no problem about that.
But the manpage of ...
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