Newsgroups: comp.archives Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!math.lsa.umich.edu!caen!ox.com!emv From: zoo@aps1.spa.umn.edu (david d [zoo] zuhn) Subject: [emacs] Re: emacs server. Message-ID: <1990Dec6.232821.18673@ox.com> Followup-To: comp.emacs Sender: emv@ox.com (Edward Vielmetti) Reply-To: zoo@aps1.spa.umn.edu (david d [zoo] zuhn) Organization: Minnesota Automated Plate Scanner Lab References: <1990Nov30.212956.27042@bigsur.uucp> Date: Thu, 6 Dec 90 23:28:21 GMT Approved: emv@ox.com (Edward Vielmetti) X-Original-Newsgroups: comp.emacs Archive-name: gnu/emacs/gnuserv/1990-12-06 Archive: cs.umn.edu:/pub/gnu/emacs/gnuserv.tar.Z [128.101.224.1] Original-posting-by: zoo@aps1.spa.umn.edu (david d [zoo] zuhn) Original-subject: Re: emacs server. Reposted-by: emv@ox.com (Edward Vielmetti) Jack> In article <1990Nov30.212956.27042@bigsur.uucp>, fwpui2@bmerh453.BNR.CA (Larry Greenfield) writes: Jack> |> The way I would like this process to work is for the server to Jack> |> simply insert the file into the buffer and immediately issue a Jack> |> server-done to emacsclient. I would also like to retain the Jack> |> original implementation for mail, etc. Jack> Andy Norman makes a fine little extended Jack> emacsserver, called ``gnuserv.'' It does just exactly what you request Jack> here (the client is named gnuclient; if you invoke "gnuclient file", Jack> it waits; if you do "gnuclient -q file" it doesn't. Set $EDITOR to Jack> the former; alias the latter to something easy to type). Jack> It also includes a thing called gnudoit, which passes an arbitrary Jack> elisp form to Emacs. For example, I have my mail-notifier do a Jack> "gnudoit '(mh-inc-folder)'" when I boink it, so that Emacs Jack> incorporates my mail. This software is now available for anonymous FTP from cs.umn.edu (128.101.224.1 for the nameserver impaired) as pub/gnu/emacs/gnuserv.tar.Z. Please contact me (zoo@aps1.spa.umn.edu) if you have any problems getting the software. Please contact Andy Norman (ange@hplb.hpl.hp.com) if you have any problems getting the software to work. david d [zoo] zuhn Univ. of Minnesota Dept. of Astronomy zoo@aps1.spa.umn.edu Automated Plate Scanner Project Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com