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- From: hollen@megatek.UUCP (Dion Hollenbeck)
- Subject: What is emacs-client and server
- Message-ID: <HOLLEN.92Jul24125201@peg.megatek.UUCP>
- Sender: hollen@megatek.uucp (Dion Hollenbeck)
- Organization: Megatek Corporation, San Diego, California
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 20:52:01 GMT
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- Have been following the thread about emacsclient and server and what
- I would like to know is "What are these things and how are they used?"
- I have used Info, looked in the printed manual, even grepped through
- the entire info directory in the distribution and there is no mention
- of these. About the most I have been able to glean is from the source
- to both that says the following:
-
- /* The GNU Emacs edit server process is run as a subprocess of Emacs
- under control of the file lisp/server.el.
- This program accepts communication from client (program emacsclient.c)
- and passes their commands (consisting of keyboard characters)
- up to the Emacs which then executes them. */
-
- Even this does not tell me much. Do I need to worry about it at all
- since my Emacs works fine? Is there some neat functionality or
- speedup I am missing?
-
- Inquiring minds want to know.
-
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