Unlock the Power of the Daemon with emacsclient

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Unlock the Power of the Daemon with emacsclient

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In this video we'll learn how to use the Emacs daemon to enable a background session of Emacs that can be used to gain various benefits with the 'emacsclient' command. We will also show how you may need to update your configuration to adjust to loading it in the daemon, including setting fonts and mode line icons. Unlock new daemonic powers today!
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@camrouxbg 3 жыл бұрын

This is so useful. The documentation for using daemon mode is suboptimal, in my opinion, so I tend to struggle a bit with this. I'll try to mess around a bit and see what I can come up with though. I really like the concept of using Org files with code blocks to organize and modify dotfiles. Especially when startup/login files seem to be a bit scattered. This will make it so much easier.

@kricouille 3 жыл бұрын

I was just about to look into Emacs deamon, perfect timing 😁

@valizeth4073 2 жыл бұрын

Can't believe I've used emacs on and off for close to 10 years without knowing of this, crazy.

@hemanta212 3 жыл бұрын

hoping for a video on tramp mode as well :)

@SystemCrafters 3 жыл бұрын

I'll definitely do one!

@AndersJackson 3 жыл бұрын

I set the -a option when using emacsclient to empty, so it will start an emacs daemon for me. emacsclient -c -a "" text.file Will connect to the daemon, and it not started, it will start it for me.

@aryakiran256 3 жыл бұрын

For setting correct font on emacs daemon. You can use Emacs.font in Xresources

@pittaman 3 жыл бұрын

Great vid! Was hoping to see info on setup and verification of emacs daemon in TCP mode for remote emacs sessions. This seems very possible, but not very well explained anywhere.

@swapnil1989 3 жыл бұрын

I have been using server-start (emacsclient) and to save the session of open buffers i use desktop-save-mode in init.el. emacs --daemon is useful when multiple clients are needed, Thanks.

@imantssvarcs91 2 жыл бұрын

Hey. I'm setting default font like this: (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(font . "Cascadia Code 14")) then I don't need special hook for setting fonts in daemon mode.

@fakhri7688 Жыл бұрын

I am struggling with persp-mode when running with daemon: - typing `C-x 5 2` usually open the selected buffer in a new frame, but when running with a daemon it opens the new perspective *Scratch * Buffer...

@Edward-un2ej 3 жыл бұрын

I met many problems when I set deamon mode on macos. Could you give me some tips?

@PhilippeCarphin 3 жыл бұрын

Are you still having any problems? I've been running Emacs as a daemon on MacOS for quite some time and I feel like I've ironed out all the kinks. I also have an Automator app that allows me to double click files, open them with emacsclient, create a frame and focus it. It also has some logic for when the server is not running to offer a MacOS popup that allows to choose between starting the daemon or aborting in case you prefer to start the daemon yourself in a shell.

@qandak 2 жыл бұрын

There's no need to start with "sudo" if systemd is going to enable a service for user. Blindly copy-pasting gives me an error - "$DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS and $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not defined".

@t01 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks man

@user-we5cu6eb7u 5 ай бұрын

# Reuse existing emacs frame or open new one export EDITOR="emacsclient -r" # and spawn emacs --daemon if it's not running export ALTERNATE_EDITOR= # dont't block the shell alias edit="$EDITOR -n"

@thengakola6217 2 жыл бұрын

anyone know what font is used here? 😬

@PhilippeCarphin 3 жыл бұрын

I also have a command line warpper for the daemon and client with a link "ec" pointing to this script so: - ec -s does emacs --daemon - ec -k does emacsclient -c -e "(save-buffers-kill-emacs)" which creates a frame and does the prompt to - If $1 is not -s or -k, - make sure a frame exists, - do emacsclient --no-wait $@ - emacsclient --no-wait -e ""

@ex0stasis72 3 жыл бұрын

When I was using VS Code, I wished that I could keep it running in the background as a daemon, because VS Code’s launch time with no extensions is even worse than Spacemacs.