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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How can I debug random Emacs server crashes?
I generally have a long-running instance of emacs --daemon, which I connect to with various emacsclients. Recently I have started experiencing random crashes. I say "random" because I haven't been ...
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Calling emacsclient from ansi-term makes emacsclient hang, how do I get around this?
Sometimes I use ansi-term in emacsclient instead of directly using my shell. When I do this, it is not an infrequent occurrence that I forget where I am and call emacsclient someFile, which freezes ...
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emacsclient doesn't start when visiting a file that is already open
I start emacsclient with emacsclient -a 'emacs-server-start' -nw --socket-name=$TTY, where emacs-server-start is a script that runs emacs --daemon="$TTY" (I use $TTY to get a different client for each ...
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When using emacsclient, how can I open the file in the active buffer?
When I open a file with emacsclient without invoking -c, Emacs visits the file in a new buffer in the background while leaving my current window configuration in place. I'd like to change this, e.g. ...
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Emacs not responding to keyboard input
Sometimes Emacs stops responding to keyboard input. It responds to mouse input though. If I do killall -s SIGUSR2 emacs, the debugger shows this (but remains unresponsive to keyboard):
Debugger ...
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Launching GUI emacslient destroys terminal frame resizing capabilities
Whenever I launch a GUI session as $ emacsclient -c all the emacsclient sessions I've created with $ emacsclient -nw -c lose several settings. The problem only occurs right after launching a GUI ...
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How to wait while evaluating an expression with emacsclient?
I use emacsclient regularly to open files. In order to open files owned by root, it is necessary to use tramp. As far as I know this requires the use of the eval option of emacsclient.
emacsclient --...
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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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make-frame-on-display & emacsclient fail w/ exported display while other apps are fine
I am connecting to my office GNU/Linux box from a windows laptop through a putty ssh tunnel.
I have also on the laptop the java WeirdX X11 server, that is declared in putty to use the localhost:2 (...
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emacsclient -c new frame cannot have an individual new sr-speedbar
Since emacsclient depends on emacs server, when I first start emacs server and then try:
emacsclient -c -n -a emacs --eval "(sr-speedbar-open)"
It reports that sr-speedbar is arlready opened. Is it ...
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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 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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Differing behaviours with EDITOR=emacsclient between git and sudoedit
In my .profile I've
export EDITOR="emacsclient -qa \"emacs --no-window-system --no-desktop\""
Doing sudo -e /somefile doesn't work even when Emacs server is running. I get
emacsclient: ...
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Can emacsclient focus an existing frame?
When emacsclient is invoked with the option -c it creates a new frame. In both Windows and Linux, this frame is a window at the top of the Z-stack and has input focus. With option -n (non-blocking) ...
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Is it possible to see the cursor of other emacsclients?
I'm trying to run Emacs server in order to collaborate on org files in our office.
emacsclient makes it quite easy to have everyone connect to the same instance of a file and we can see real time ...
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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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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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Remove emacsclient startup message
How do I go about removing the message "When done with this frame, type C-x 5 0" when launching emacsclient?
I know it's possible to controll the startup message of emacs when not launched as a ...
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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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emacsclent -nw hangs
As I use emacsclient -nw -c in a terminal e.g. xterm -e emacsclient -nw -c, emacs hangs when I resize horizontally (to the minimum allowed by the wm). I can't no longer launch any emacsclient window, ...
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Possible to pass arguments to emacsclient alternate-editor?
Currently this works:
emacsclient ..args.. --alternate-editor=some_editor
However this does not:
emacsclient ..args.. --alternate-editor="some_editor --args"
Is there a way to call the alternate-...
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How to RPC from External Process to Emacs
How can I RPC from an external application into Emacs then have a function in Emacs handle the RPC?
For example, I would like to make a D3.js webpage with a dependency graph of a codebase, view and ...
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Problem opening spacemacs on mac OS Sierra when clicking spacemacs icon.
trying to install spacemacs using the Alternate installation instructions, but when I load the app using the app icon on the Applications folder I get the following.
TL;DR: How to link env HOME=$HOME/...
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Running emacsclient causes some flashing effect to happen on other frames
I picked up this code from:
Is there any way to run a hook function only once?
(setq myGraphicModeHash (make-hash-table :test 'equal :size 2))
(puthash "gui" t myGraphicModeHash)
(puthash "term" t ...
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emacs ssh client on windows
I have emacs installed on linux machine, and for most times, I need to connect to the machine on my windows laptop, previous I use putty, but I found it has issue with emacs keybindings, some key ...
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Preventing emacsclient -c from bringing both Emacs frames to the front
Environment Cygwin, emacs-w32 variant.
Use case Setting up my editor for git commits from the terminal.
Problem
When I do a git commit from a terminal, I have it setup to do
emacsclient -c
I get a ...
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Running emacs server via systemd prevents inverse search and nice view
Background: I am using systemd to run my emacs server and my usual workflow always involves invoking emacsclient. Both server and client are on the same computer running Debian Jessie. The method is ...
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Add commands after custom LaTeX split window view
I use
(setq TeX-view-program-list (quote (("Emacs" "emacsclient -e '(split-window-horizontally 88) 'emacsclient -e '(other-window 1)'; emacsclient %o;"))))
(setq TeX-view-program-selection (quote (((...
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Unsure on how to set Evil keybinds
In order to install evil and evil-collections I added this to my config:
(use-package evil
:ensure t
:init
(setq evil-want-keybinding nil)
:config
(evil-mode 1))
(use-package evil-...
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Emacsclient starts but no GUI shown
I'm using Emacs installed from the emacs-plus package from homebrew on Mac OS X 10.14.6. I uninstall/reinstall the package today and suddenly it stops working properly. The version of emacs-plus ...
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Why can't OSX handle Emacs client frames
By using the latest Emacs version from 1, it seems that when running in daemon-mode and when opening a new client frame from the terminal or from a custom OSX app I wrote which opens a new frame when ...
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Call mutt from within emacs
I run emacsclient on kitty terminal emulator (https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty) and want to add a function to open mutt (via an org-link) from within emacsclient.
kitty supports multiple terminal ...
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emacsclient flashes already-open file for ~2s before showing target file
My .emacs file opens itself so that I can always switch buffers to quickly make changes. I do this with:
;; $HOME/.emacs
(find-file "~/.emacs")
I start emacs with emacs --daemon and open files from ...
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List commands / keywords in a directory sorted by frequency of use
I want to do some refactoring. For that purpose I want to list all keywords grouped and sorted by their frequency of appearance.
That could help me get ideas, which repetitive code I could start ...
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help: bash error in emacs rust/cargo
i get this error in emacs when runing a rust file (have rust and cargo):
cargo run
/bin/bash: cargo: command not found
Compilation exited abnormally with code 127 at Thu Aug 8 20:28:50
yet i ...
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How can I open WoMan's pages from bash?
I first tried emacsclient -t -e '(woman "sox")', but it opens the WoMan's buffer as a popup:
Then I tried emacsclient -t -e '(woman "sox") (spacemacs/toggle-maximize-buffer) (sleep-for 3) (delete-...
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formatting dates in Emacs when run as a daemon
I run Emacs on a Linux (actually Xubuntu 19.04) machine and my localization settings call for an Italian locale.
When generating timestamp, however, I'd like to have English months and weekday names....
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Running emacsclient does not load my display settings
I'm trying out emacs daemon and emacsclient in Linux. There's one thing I haven't been able to figure out: whenever I run emacsclient, my display settings (e.g. font) don't load, as opposed to what ...
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Emacsclient uses new instance, weird font
When I open Emacs normally (using runemacs.exe), everything appears fine, including the font. However, when I try opening a file in Emacs using the client, while getting the client to start the server ...
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Reconnect to the restarted daemon
I have started emacs (v26.1) server:
$ emacs --daemon
I connected using
$ emacsclient -t
From within emacs, well spacemacs, I restarted the daemon SPC q r, which executed dotspacemacs/resume-...
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Cannot use toggle-input-mode in emacsclient
Recently, I 'm using gnu-apl and I need to change the input mode.
When I use it in emacs it works well, but inside and emacsclient it doesn't work I cannot select any different input:
With emacs:
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emacsclient exits unexpectedly without any error
I've built GNU Emacs 27.0.50 from source in Ubuntu 18.10. Then started the daemon as a systemd unit:
[Unit]
Description=Emacs text editor
Documentation=info:emacs man:emacs(1) https://gnu.org/...
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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 client doesn't connect to running server on Windows
I have fresh new installation of emacs altogether with spacemacs. I set env vars for alternate editor and server file. My server file after starting emacs looks like:
127.0.0.1:64518 11948
'M.P$#NT[...
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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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Decryption and emacs client
I started using (server-start) recently and only using emacs client (with -c -a emacs option). The expected behavior when opening a .gpg file is that epa automatically tries to decrypt the file but ...
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evaluate code in other emacsclient?
I wish I could run code from one emacsclient session inside other. I'm working in terminal via ssh, terminal has two panes connected to machine with emacs via ssh, each pane has its own emacsclient ...
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emacs: leaving buffer in terminal emacs
After opening a file with emacsclient -nw foo.txt I see
When done with a buffer, type C-x #
in the minibuffer.
I however habitually do C-x C-c instead of C-x #
Is there a practical difference ...
