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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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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Is it possible to do soap/wsdl requests as in SoapUI?
Emacs 27.1
To work with wsdl file I use SoapUI 5.7.
Steps:
Load wsdl file to SoapUI.
As result it's show me all methods:
set credentials
Create and run any of method
And it's work just fine.
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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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Using Windows git.exe with Magit on WSL2 Hangs on commit
I currenlty run emacs-nox on WSL2. My workflow is as such:
[Gentoo Linux Host] –ssh–> [WSL2 Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS (Windows VM)] –open–> [emacs] –edit–> /mnt/c/<Path>/<Files>
There is ...
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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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How to trigger debugger on emacsclient error
I asked in a prior question about what might be causing my emacsclient widows to shutdown immediately with the following output on stderr: "ERROR: Beginning of buffer". I have tried to use ...
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emacsclient closes immediately on "*ERROR*: Beginning of buffer"
I have an app where I call emacsclient to do some editing on an org file. When it calls it, the frame flashes for an instant, then closes immediately. On stderr, I get the following message:
*ERROR*:...
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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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How to open emacsclient with working directory set to $PWD?
In my XTerm, I want to open new Emacs frame as well as buffer, with working directory set to $PWD in XTerm env.
I tried emacsclient -t -c --eval "(cd $PWD)", but it doesn't seem to work.
Is ...
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how to update emacs packages from the command line
I want to be able to update Emacs packages from the command line and then quit.
I have written this function
(defun updateandquit ()
(configuration-layer/update-packages t)
(spacemacs/...
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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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org-link-open fails with Wrong number of arguments: (1 . 1), 0
I recently added a config entry to my ./doom.d/config.el to enable Firefox as a default browser for opening links. Below is the entry I added based on this post.
;; Set specific browser to open links ...
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Org Tangle if file does not exist
I've been trying to work out if it's possible to tangle a file if it's not existent on the system. I came across Can Org Babel conditionally tangle code blocks based on system-type? which gave me a ...
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Open new file in new frame without raising existing frames (Windows)
I run Emacs in a MSWindows environment (via server launched with runemacs), and open new files with emacsclientw.exe -n [filename]. It works very well, except for a detail in the second case below:
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org-protocol URLs with UTF-8 (URL-encoded) characters aren't properly captured
When using org-protocol capture URLs on Windows, pages with non-ASCII titles or captured text results in a capture with incorrect values applied in the template. Despite such characters being properly ...
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emacs unable to create frame in tty mode on linux `No applicable method: frame-creation-function`
Recently I'm unable to open emacsclient in tty mode, it always fails with the below error (environment redacted, and added newlines)
*ERROR*: No applicable method: frame-creation-function, (
(menu-bar-...
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Doom emacs org-agenda does not show to do items
I am new to doom emacs, I am trying to give a shot to using org mode todos and agenda files. I created a sample org file with a list of to-do items as below.
#+TITLE: Sample list
* Check
** TODO Item ...
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`org-ellipsis` respected by `emacsclient` but not by `emacs`
In my emacs.d/init.el I have:
(use-package org
;; ...
:custom
(org-ellipsis " ▼")
:custom-face
(org-ellipsis ((t (:foreground "#665" :underline nil))))
;; ....
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Emacs daemon. First emacslient frame loads reasonably fast. Subsequent emacsclient frames load almost instantaneously. Why?
Emacs daemon greatly reduces time to load the first frame with emacsclient. However, when visiting a file with emacsclient, subsequent emacsclient frames load much faster than the first.
Command
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org files are not refreshed in emacsclient
My org files are stored on the cloud so I can edit them from multiple machines. Whenever I make a change to an org file (from a different machine), emacsclient does not reflect these changes, but a ...
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mwheel-scroll bindings between GUI and terminal?
Using an Emacs daemon (28, pgtk branch) switching between GUI and terminal, I can't get mouse scrolling to work on both. They work on each individually, but the issue is with the mouse-wheel-{up,down}-...
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Emacs client doesn't recognize non-ascii input
The problem: When I type a non-ascii character, the character is not wrote and instead a weird key combination is performed, depending on which character I have typed, as if it didn't support utf-8.
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How to suppress emacsclient --eval output
I am opening a file as follows:
$ emacsclient -qt -e '(progn (find-file "'filename.py'"))'
#<buffer filename.py>
which outputs #<buffer filename.py> in the terminal. Is it ...
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How to get the PATH from the SHELL
When launched at system start-up, the Emacs daemon doesn't pick up modifications to the PATH introduced by shell initialization scripts.
Emacswiki suggests to use this function to update Emacs' PATH,
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