Comments on: Emacs users, what is your $EDITOR?

By: Chirag Vora

Chirag Vora — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 10:21:48 +0000

Liked this setup for opening “emacs -nw” within ipython shell using %edit

By: Ashutosh Mehra’s Blog » Aha! Emacs 23!

Ashutosh Mehra’s Blog » Aha! Emacs 23! — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 19:01:05 +0000

[...] initialization. Hence it could be safely set as the $EDITOR on Mac or Linux (See Jared’s post What is your $EDITOR?). The same is true with emacs 23 running in –daemon mode, and now we have the added flexibility to [...]

By: Jared

Jared — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:41:46 +0000

Hi afoo. You say you know about tramp… what is the problem with it if you prefer using vim over ssh?

And surely there can’t be any widely used configuration file that doesn’t have an emacs mode…

By: afoo

afoo — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:07:03 +0000

I have EDITOR set to vim. emacsclient isn’t really a solution for me since I’m often on remote machines via ssh editing config files (yes, I know about tramp). Also, I like vim better for editing config files because it knows about the syntax of the configuration files for many services I use (like postfix or openssh) and thus helps me avoid silly spelling mistakes in their configuration files. Plus, I think it helps train my brain to switch between the two extremely different editing philosophies all the time.

By: Jared

Jared — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 20:36:14 +0000

Zile isn’t installed on the servers I work on (and no, I can’t install it, even in $HOME), but yes, that looks like a nice alternative to my stripped down emacs if it is available.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:58:13 +0000

On my development systems I use emacsclient, because emacs is always running. On other systems, especially servers, I use zile. It's small, fast, and most importantly it's in the debian/ubuntu repos.

By: Multiple Build Commands For Emacs « A Curious Programmer

Multiple Build Commands For Emacs « A Curious Programmer — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:50:09 +0000

[...] 13, 2009 by Jared Alex Bennee left a comment on my dollar editor post: I then open a number of separate emacs processes for each project I’m actively [...]

By: Jared

Jared — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 07:43:43 +0000

@Alex

Ah, that makes more sense now, thanks.

The stripped down emacs has the same problem you describe – it can’t access the other buffers either. The perforce emacs module I’m using can only submit all of the files in a directory at the same time which isn’t normally the way I like to work.

I used to use multiple emacs sessions simultaneously too but I always got confused about which one I was using to work on which project (I always open and close loads of new frames with C-x 5). However, I have a solution to the different make invocation problem which I’ll probably write about next time.

By: Alex Bennee

Alex Bennee — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:50:43 +0000

@Jared

I think you misunderstand slight. The emacsclient sessions are just for ad-hoc edits and use the emacs server that is always running on my desktop. I’ve never used Perforce but I assume P4EDITOR is the editor run when doing a commit message.

I then open a number of separate emacs processes for each project I’m actively working on. I mainly do this as each project typically has it’s own make invocation.

The one downside is that an emacsclient sessions don’t have access to the buffers in the other emacsen which you may want if you want to include comments from code your editing. But maybe you want to commit into Perforce from vc-mode?

By: Jared

Jared — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 19:28:59 +0000

@Alex - Hi Alex, is this specifically with perforce? In which case how do you get the file to open in the emacs session with the appropriate client? @Piyo - My regular .emacs is pretty empty is it just requires files in ~/emacs-files/ containing my customizations, similar to as described here. (I notice you left a comment saying you also do something similar). I keep the files under control using RCS which has been working well for me. And thanks for the tip on gnuclient. Does this work on gnu emacs as well as xemacs?