On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 11:04, Mats Bengtsson wrote: > The point of using emacsclient is exactly that you open the file > in the emacs process that is already up and running.
That's what I thought should happen. > However, what you maybe missed is that you need to start the > corresponding server in emacs. > I have the following in my .emacs file: > > ;; > ;; Start the emacs server, so we can use emacsclient > ;; > (server-start) > No, I have that line in my ~/.emacs file. -David > > /Mats > > David Bobroff wrote: > > I finally decided to see if I could get point-and-click really working. > > After reading the instructions in Appendix D I discovered that I did not > > fully understand them: > > > > Make sure that the environment variable XEDITOR is set to > > > > emacsclient --no-wait +%l %f > > > > I did not fully understand this at first. A friend who understands > > Linux better than I helped me out with this one. This needed to be in > > my ~/.bashrc file. > > > > But I was getting errors. If I have this 'emacsclient' line in my > > ~/.bashrc file I get: > > > > Xdvi Error > > Error executing: > > emacsclient --no-wait %l %f (I get real line numbers, of course) > > /path/to/file.ly > > > > If, however, I use this line instead: > > > > export XEDITOR="emacs +%l %f" > > > > ...it works. I can even use > > > > export XEDITOR="emacs +%l:%c %f" > > > > ...and get the cursor to land in the correct column (Emacs 21.2.1). > > > > But, each time I do point-and-click I get a new instance of Emacs. Is > > this correct? If so, it seems a bit awkward. > > > > Any clarifications welcome. > > > > -David > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > lilypond-user mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
