Re: set editor, switching from vim to emacs
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 12:29:33PM -0200, Rodrigo Bernardo Pimentel wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 18 2003 at 04:43:35AM BRST, Rob Reid <kepler@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > At 9:50 PM PST on November 17 Allister MacLeod sent off:
> > > GNU Emacs
> > ...
> > > comes with the -nw switch, which I use to have emacs use the same
> > > xterm as mutt. Perhaps my confusion springs from my unfamiliarity
> > > with *client wrt emacs.
> >
> > emacsclient filename
> >
> > puts "filename" in a buffer on an already running emacs.
>
> Exactly, that's what I meant. Starting emacs everytime is not only
> time consuming (though "xemacs -vanilla" comes up pretty quickly, could be
> used with -eval for frequent editing; I remember there's something similar
> in GNU (or FSF, means the same editor) Emacs). It's definetly a better
> solution, if you're going to use it frequently, to keep a copy of emacs open
> and call emacsclient (or gnuclient - see below).
>
Now that puts me in mind of doing the same thing with xvile, there's a
vile equivalent of emacsclient called vileget.
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Chris Green (chris@xxxxxxxxxxx)