Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!usc!ucsd!pacbell.com!ames!eos!shelby!msi.umn.edu!s16.msi.umn.edu!zoo From: zoo@aps1.spa.umn.edu (david d [zoo] zuhn) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: emacs server. Message-ID: Date: 6 Dec 90 23:27:20 GMT References: <1990Nov30.212956.27042@bigsur.uucp> <1990Dec4.235950.9119@relay.wpd.sgi.com> Sender: news@s1.msi.umn.edu Organization: Minnesota Automated Plate Scanner Lab Lines: 30 In-Reply-To: jackr@dblues.wpd.sgi.com's message of 4 Dec 90 23:59:50 GMT 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