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From: mdb@amadeus.silvlis.COM (Mark D. Baushke)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Server and Client
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Date: 28 Apr 88 21:56:49 GMT
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>  Date: Thu, 28 Apr 88 13:06:37 EDT
>  From: sun!uc.msc.umn.edu!darkstar!brian%hall.CRAY.COM (Brian Utterback)
>  
>  What is the purpose of the emacserver and  emacsclient?  

The best use of emacsclient is when you are in a window system (e.g.,
X11 or suntools) and you have a copy of emacs running. From that copy
issue the M-x server-start command.

Start the window-system such that every new shell will inherit/execute the
following two commands:

	setenv EDITOR emacsclient
	alias emacs $EDITOR

For programs that invoke $EDITOR, you will be able to modify the file
from inside of your already existing emacs. This reduces the start-up
time to get at the file. Using emacsclient could also improve the
performance of your machine (by not having to start another "heavy"
process).

Examples of programs that use $EDITOR

	vipw
	mh
        Saber-C
	IDETool

>  Can they be used to edit a file on another machine across a
>  network?

No. The current emacsclient creates a socket on the local machine.

Mark Baushke
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