X-Git-Url: https://code.delx.au/gnu-emacs/blobdiff_plain/36ff5b1090eb6f11f5372c818cc0aef400396ecb..135e3b47ec43ea6c2d83c460f43fbacb8b8257e2:/man/misc.texi diff --git a/man/misc.texi b/man/misc.texi index da8c3179b9..bfe86af09f 100644 --- a/man/misc.texi +++ b/man/misc.texi @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ @c This is part of the Emacs manual. @c Copyright (C) 1985, 1986, 1987, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 2000, 2001, -@c 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +@c 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. @c See file emacs.texi for copying conditions. @iftex @chapter Miscellaneous Commands @@ -983,8 +983,8 @@ to the bottom before inserting. The default is @code{nil}. @vindex comint-scroll-show-maximum-output If @code{comint-scroll-show-maximum-output} is non-@code{nil}, then -arrival of output when point is at the end tries to place the last line of -text at the bottom line of the window, so as to show as much useful +arrival of output when point is at the end tries to scroll the last +line of text to the bottom line of the window, showing as much useful text as possible. (This mimics the scrolling behavior of most terminals.) The default is @code{t}. @@ -1244,28 +1244,36 @@ variable @env{EDITOR} to specify which editor to run. If you set @env{EDITOR} to @samp{emacs}, they invoke Emacs---but in an inconvenient fashion, by starting a new, separate Emacs process. This is inconvenient because it takes time and because the new Emacs process -doesn't share the buffers in any existing Emacs process. +doesn't share the buffers with any existing Emacs process. You can arrange to use your existing Emacs process as the editor for -programs like @code{mail} by using the Emacs client and Emacs server -programs. Here is how. +programs like @code{mail} by using the Emacs client program and the +server that is part of Emacs. Here is how. @cindex @env{TEXEDIT} environment variable - First, the preparation. Within Emacs, call the function -@code{server-start}. (Your @file{.emacs} file can do this automatically -if you add the expression @code{(server-start)} to it.) Then, outside -Emacs, set the @env{EDITOR} environment variable to @samp{emacsclient}. -(Note that some programs use a different environment variable; for -example, to make @TeX{} use @samp{emacsclient}, you should set the -@env{TEXEDIT} environment variable to @samp{emacsclient +%d %s}.) +@findex server-start + First, the preparations. Within Emacs, call the function +@code{server-start}. (Your @file{.emacs} init file can do this +automatically if you add the expression @code{(server-start)} to it, +see @ref{Init File}.) Then, outside Emacs, set the @env{EDITOR} +environment variable to @samp{emacsclient}. (Note that some programs +use a different environment variable; for example, to make @TeX{} use +@samp{emacsclient}, you should set the @env{TEXEDIT} environment +variable to @samp{emacsclient +%d %s}.) + +@pindex emacs.bash +@cindex Bash command to use Emacs server + As an alternative to using @code{emacsclient}, the file +@file{etc/emacs.bash} defines a Bash command @code{edit} which will +communicate with a running Emacs session, or start one if none exist. @kindex C-x # @findex server-edit - Then, whenever any program invokes your specified @env{EDITOR} + Now, whenever any program invokes your specified @env{EDITOR} program, the effect is to send a message to your principal Emacs telling it to visit a file. (That's what the program @code{emacsclient} does.) Emacs displays the buffer immediately and you can immediately begin -editing it. +editing it in the already running Emacs session. When you've finished editing that buffer, type @kbd{C-x #} (@code{server-edit}). This saves the file and sends a message back to @@ -1297,8 +1305,8 @@ kills it if the file name matches the regular expression each one a unique ``server name'', using the variable @code{server-name}. For example, @kbd{M-x set-variable @key{RET} server-name @key{RET} foo @key{RET}} sets the server name to -@samp{foo}. The @code{emacsclient} program can visit a server by name -using the @samp{-s} option. @xref{Invoking emacsclient}. +@samp{foo}. The @code{emacsclient} program can specify a server by +name using the @samp{-s} option. @xref{Invoking emacsclient}. While @code{mail} or another application is waiting for @code{emacsclient} to finish, @code{emacsclient} does not read terminal @@ -1335,6 +1343,7 @@ automatically when you finish with them. @node Invoking emacsclient,, Emacs Server, Emacs Server @subsection Invoking @code{emacsclient} +@cindex @code{emacsclient} invocation and options To run the @code{emacsclient} program, specify file names as arguments, and optionally line numbers as well, like this: @@ -1363,37 +1372,52 @@ a client buffer, the next client buffer is automatically selected. @code{emacsclient}, then it returns immediately. (You can take as long as you like to edit the files in Emacs.) - The option @samp{--alternate-editor=@var{command}} specifies a -command to run if @code{emacsclient} fails to contact Emacs. This is -useful when running @code{emacsclient} in a script. For example, the -following setting for the @env{EDITOR} environment variable will -always give you an editor, even if no Emacs server is running: + The option @samp{-a @var{command}} or +@samp{--alternate-editor=@var{command}} specifies a command to run if +@code{emacsclient} fails to contact Emacs. This is useful when +running @code{emacsclient} in a script. For example, the following +setting for the @env{EDITOR} environment variable will always give you +an editor, even if no Emacs server is running: @example EDITOR="emacsclient --alternate-editor emacs +%d %s" @end example @noindent +@cindex @env{ALTERNATE_EDITOR} environment variable The environment variable @env{ALTERNATE_EDITOR} has the same effect, with the value of the @samp{--alternate-editor} option taking precedence. -@pindex emacs.bash - Alternatively, the file @file{etc/emacs.bash} defines a bash -function which will communicate with a running Emacs server, or start -one if none exists. - If you use several displays, you can tell Emacs on which display to -open the given files with the option @samp{--display=@var{DISPLAY}}. -This can be used typically when connecting from home to an Emacs -server running on your machine at your workplace. +open the given files with the @samp{-d @var{display}} or +@samp{--display=@var{display}} option to @code{emacsclient}. This is +handy when connecting from home to an Emacs session running on your +machine at your workplace. If there is more than one Emacs server running, you can specify a -server name with the option @samp{-s @var{name}}. +server name with the @samp{-s @var{name}} or +@samp{--socket-name=@var{name}} option to @code{emacsclient}. (This +option is not supported on MS-Windows.) You can also use @code{emacsclient} to execute any piece of Emacs Lisp -code, using the option @samp{--eval}. When this option is given, the -rest of the arguments is not taken as a list of files to visit but as -a list of expressions to evaluate. +code, using the @samp{-e} or @samp{--eval} option. When this option +is given, the rest of the arguments is interpreted as a list of +expressions to evaluate, not a list of files to visit. + +@cindex @env{EMACS_SERVER_FILE} environment variable +When you start the Emacs server (by calling @code{server-start}), +Emacs creates a file with information about TCP connection to the +server: the host where Emacs is running, the port where it is +listening, and an authentication string. @code{emacsclient} uses this +information if it needs to connect to the server via TCP. By default, +the file goes in the @file{~/.emacs.d/server/} directory@footnote{On +MS-Windows, if @env{HOME} is not set or the TCP configuration file +cannot be found there, Emacs also looks for the file in the +@file{.emacs.d/server/} subdirectory of the directory pointed to by +the @env{APPDATA} environment variable.}. You can specify the file +name to use with the @samp{-f @var{file}} or +@samp{--server-file=@var{file}} options, or by setting +@env{EMACS_SERVER_FILE} environment variable to the file name. @node Printing, Sorting, Emacs Server, Top @section Printing Hard Copies