Starting Emacs in daemon mode
Emacs can start in daemon mode: it starts without any user interface, only with a server, and you can open files and windows by contacting the server with the emacsclient utility.
Questions tagged [daemon]
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Start two separate emacs daemons for console and GUI
Typically I start emacs with the GUI, and start a server right away with (server-start). Now I can easily open documents into my existing emacs session from terminal via emacsclient -n , or from the File Browser.
From time to time, however, I…
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How to get a list of all the daemons running?
I use one daemon per project (so that when I open the client, they don't share buffers). I'd like to get a list of all the daemons that are running.
I tried using lsof -c emacs | grep "TYPE=STREAM" but that doesn't narrow it down sufficiently.
Is…
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Connect to daemon with 'lost' socket
I have a running emacs daemon, and somehow lost the ability to connect to it.
Here are some relevant command output:
$ pgrep -a emacs
12664 emacs --daemon
$ lsof -c emacs -a -u $USER -a -U -w
COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE …
user1404316
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How can I prevent `84;0;0c` written into first line when emacs daemon starts running?
When emacs frozen, I restart it and I see that 84;0;0c may end up writting into very first line of the latest open file.
The way I start emacs daemon: emacsclient -c -qut file.txt 2>/dev/null. While this process is on-going when I type enter or…
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Is it ok to run `emacs --fg-daemon` and `emacs --bg-daemon` at the same time?
I am trying to run GNU Emacs 29.0.50 in macOS. The way install it as follows:
brew reinstall emacs-head@29 --with-cocoa --with-native-comp
I have observe that Emacs --fg-daemon and Emacs --bg-daemon processes are running at the same time.
$ ps…
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