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From: billo@cadnetix.COM (Bill Oakley)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: GNUemacs server/client mode
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Date: 12 Mar 89 20:26:15 GMT
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On the subject of GNUemacs server/client mode, I have a tool that invokes
$EDITOR with the command:

        $EDITOR +<line number> <filename>.

If EDITOR is set to "emacs" this works fine, but is kind of wasteful.  It
would be better to set EDITOR to "emacsclient", as has been discussed here.
If I do this, however, I first get a buffer/new file of the name
+<line number>, and when I C-# out of it I get the buffer containing
<filename>, with the cursor positioned at line one.  Ideally, I'd like emacs
to recognize the +<line number>, save it, switch to the buffer containing
<filename>, and then execute a goto-line to <line number>.  As a second
choice, I'd like emacs to just ignore the +<line number>.  (I realize this
might screw up filenames beginning with '+', but that's ok.)  Anyway, I've
looked at server.el a little bit, and this seems to be the place to make the
changes, but before I jumped in and tried my hand at it I thought I would see
if anyone has already done something like this.

By the way, I'm running 18.44 (and wishing the systems people would
upgrade to 18.52) on a Sun3 OS3 (soon to be OS4) machine.

Thanks for your help.

Bill Oakley            billo@cadnetix.com
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