Questions tagged [server]
The Emacs server, which allows opening files and running commands in an existing Emacs instance
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Emacsclient freezes with a particular combination of server-stop-automatically and use-dialog-box
I encountered a situation where Emacs was unexpectedly unresponsive and could reduce it to the following minimal reproducible example. This is on Emacs 30.2 on Linux in KDE and happens with X11 as ...
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emacs server on linux, client on windows - Please specify display
I want to run an emacs server on a ubuntu (headless) machine, and a client on a windows 11. I have set up the server to use tcp, have shared the authentication key, and made ssh port forwarding, so ...
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Why this command line argument does not work when an emacs server is not running?
If an emacs server is already running, the following command opens an emacs frame and switches to *scratch* buffer. "emacsclientw" -na "runemacs" -e "(switch-to-buffer \"*...
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emacsclient says "No connection could be made.." [duplicate]
(I'm not sure if this is a windows-only problem, may other OSs just don't crash as often) I used to start one emacs window and my .emacs has a line (server-start) which starts the server. Then I open ...
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What to do with lisp code of web server to run it?
Before I was using Apache web server and Node Express but then I started to learn Emacs for the web purpose. After I found the web server code I could not start it or maybe I started it but but did ...
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Emacs Keeps Data Even After I Close It + Doesn't Reload `.emacs`
Even after I close emacs with C-x C-c, it seems that it keeps some state saved: When I open it again, I can, for example, still see the old content of the *Messages* buffer. Also, it doesn't seem to ...
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custom-set-faces not working for client
I have a custom (custom-set-faces ...) section in my ~/.emacs file. When I run emacs this section seems to get completely ignored since the custom colours don't get set. But if I go to ~/.emacs, ...
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Some Icons Don't Show Up When Running in Server/Client Mode
I am writing my own config from scratch in emacs. It's not a very complicated config so far. I have installed all-the-icons font. It works just fine when I launch emacs directly and start working in ...
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