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From: mdb@amadeus.silvlis.COM (Mark D. Baushke)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: set EDITOR=emacs
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Date: 7 Mar 88 21:40:55 GMT
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> Date: Mon, 7 Mar 88 11:38:02 EST
> From: sun!eddie.mit.edu!think!compass!galaxy!worley (Dale Worley)
> To: galaxy!info-gnu-emacs
> Subject: set EDITOR=emacs
> 
> What I want is a program "emacsclient" ...[omitted]
> 
> I know that some sort of facility like this exists for X windows, but
> I would like it for Sun windows.  Does anybody know how to do this?
> 
> Dale

The feature your are asking about already exists in emacs 18.x and is
independent of X windows (it will work on BSD machines at 18.49 and
below, in 18.50 it will work on SYS V machines which have IPC --
#define HAVE_SYSVIPC).

(Try looking in your gnuemacs/etc/emacsclient.c)

Inside of the master emacs window do:

	M-x server-start

The documentation for this is:

server-start:
Allow this Emacs process to be a server for client processes.
This starts a server communications subprocess through which
client "editors" can send your editing commands to this Emacs job.
To use the server, set up the program `etc/emacsclient' in the
Emacs distribution as your standard "editor".

Next, 'set EDITOR=/usr/local/emacs/etc/emacsclient' and you are all set.

Mark Baushke
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