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From: Andreas Roehler <andreas.roehler@online.de>
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 21:43:07 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] emacs daemon.. but quietly

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+* emacs daemon.. but quietly
+
+To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
+From: Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com>
+Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:02:22 +0100
+Subject: Re: emacs daemon.. but quietly
+
+tomas@tuxteam.de writes:
+
+> On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 02:24:44PM +0100, Gary . wrote:
+>> Is there any way to stop emacs, run with --daemon, printing out
+>> details about all of the config files it is loading? At the moment I
+>> see
+>
+> If I understand you correctly, you want to suppress stdout/stderr output
+> of emacs --daemon?
+>
+> You might just redirect that to /dev/null like so:
+>
+>   emacs --daemon > /dev/null 2>&1
+>
+> (or did I misunderstand you completely?)
+>
+>>   ("emacs" "--quiet")
+>>   Loading charset...
+>>   Loading charset...done
+>> (etc.) which is ugly since I want to start the server, when
+>> appropriate, when I start my login shell by doing something like
+>>
+>>   function serverExists {
+>>     TMPDIR=${TMPDIR-/tmp};
+>>     TMPFILE="${TMPDIR}/ps-output.$$";
+>>
+>>     ps > ${TMPFILE}
+>>     grep -q 'emacs-X11' ${TMPFILE}
+>>     SERVER_STARTED=$?;
+>>     rm ${TMPFILE}
+>>
+>>     return $SERVER_STARTED;
+>>   }
+>>
+>>   if serverExists ; then
+>>    export EMACS_SERVER="emacs already started"
+>>   else
+>>    emacs --daemon --quiet
+>>    export EMACS_SERVER="emacs started here"
+>>   fi
+>>   echo $EMACS_SERVER
+>>
+>> in my .bashrc.
+>
+> Hm. I don't quite understand this part. Besides, it seems a roundabout
+> way. What are you trying to achieve?
+>
+> Regards
+> -- tomás
+>
+
+As is emacs --daemon IMO.
+
+In emacs 23 using the alternate editor setting. My "edit" script is:-
+
+,----
+| #!/bin/bash
+| # edit
+| export GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=1
+| exec emacsclient --alternate-editor="" -c "$@"
+`----
+
+Its in the man page for emacsclient and the wiki.
+
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