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From: wjc@ho5cad.ATT.COM (Bill Carpenter)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: emacsclient -- exec's to emacs
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Date: 22 Mar 89 03:07:59 GMT
References: <FAULKNER.89Mar20100743@jmullins.harvard.edu>
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In-reply-to: faulkner@HUSC6.HARVARD.EDU's message of 20 Mar 89 15:07:43 GMT

In article <FAULKNER.89Mar20100743@jmullins.harvard.edu> faulkner@HUSC6.HARVARD.EDU (Don Faulkner) writes:
>Why not make emacsclient exec "emacs" if no server exists?
>
> [suggests modification to emacsclient source code]

I've got a better idea.  Leave the code the way it is and help your
self to this shell script:

#================================================================
# if can run emacsclient (gnuemacs is already running someplace) do
# it; else invoke a GNUemacs proper.

# expecting $GNU from GYOU!

$GNU/etc/emacsclient "$@" && exit
exec gnuemacs "$@"
================================================================

That's right.  Exec'ing "emacs" on my machine would get you a
surprise.
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