Ok, it's working. I think what happened was that, once I had actually gotten the correct files (~/.emacs and ~/.bashrc) edited correctly I had not had emacs open with the working file. Before trying running 'emacsclient' from the command line I opened a *.ly file, opened the corresponding DVI Crlt-clicked and it went straight to the line in question.
Still puzzling: Point-and-click only takes me to the line now. When I had: export XEDITOR="emacs +%l:%c %f" in my .bashrc file and #(ly:set-point-and-click 'line-column) at the top of my *.ly, point-and-click would take me to the line AND column (opening a new instance of emacs each time, of course). Now that it "works" as advertised I get only the correct line. I have Emacs v21.2.1. The docs say that for 21.2 and earlier a patch is required. Does that means any version <21.3? -David On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 15:20, Mats Bengtsson wrote: > Have you tried running the emacsclient command manually from the > command line? Try first with just > emacsclient somefile > which should open the the file in the running emacs. Type > CTRL-X # to end the emacslient session (this is not necessary > when you use emacsclient --no-wait). If it doesn't work, try to > just restart the emacs server (M-x server-start). > Once you get it up and running from the command line, it should > work also from xdvi. > > /Mats > > David Bobroff wrote: > > 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
