Re: emacsclient + w3 = ?

[William Perry <wmperry@spry.com>]

vroonhof@math.ethz.ch writes:
> 
> >>>>> "Lars" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:
> 
> BTW Supercite complained about "Mail header From Ding not RFC-compliant" or
> something like that when citing this.
> 
>     Lars> Now, I've looked at the emacsclient thingie, and it seems
>     Lars> that emacsclient just delivers some string to the Emacs
>     Lars> server.  This string is always interpreted as a file name.
>     Lars> (I think.)  If it were possible to feed the Emacs server
>     Lars> some random elisp form, that would make implementing this
>     Lars> stuff very easy.  Or is it possible already?
> 
> gnudoit (i.e. from gnuserver) does this. I prefer the emacsclient
> IPC method of using a named pipe however. It would be very nice if
> there was some 'emacsdoit'.

  Since you are running XEmacs, gnuserv is distributed with it by default.
Just do:

(condition-case ()
  (require 'gnuserve))

(server-start)

  What would be really nice is if someone reimplemented the old epoch stuff
where you could muck about with window properties and such directly.  Then
you could do something similar to what netscape does with -remote.

-Bill P.