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Re: The perfect X text editor



On Thu, 02 Mar 2000 14:13:33 +1030 
Mark Phillips <mark@adam.ist.flinders.edu.au> wrote:

>> You are using gnuclient and not loading a whole new copy of Emacs
>> every time aren't you?

> No.  What is gnuclient, how does it work, and what package is it
> in?

Gnuclient is a small tools that tells a running instance of (X)emacs
that you want to edit a file.  It will variously (depending on your
(X)Emacs config and current setup either spawn a new frame for the
file, addit it to your edit ring, or bring a text mode session in
your current terminal.  The advantage is that you only ever need to
start and load (X)Emacs once.  From then on you're just attaching
edit sessions to the single running instance.  

Gnuclient is packaged as a part of XEmacs (which I use in preference
to GNU Emacs), or as a seperate package for GNU Emacs.

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