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Run Emacs Or Emacsclient

01.21.2007
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        Automatically run emacs or emacsclient if emacs is already launched.


#!/bin/sh

EMACS="/usr/bin/emacs"
EMACSCLIENT="/usr/bin/emacsclient"

$EMACSCLIENT $@ 2> /dev/null
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
   exec $EMACS $@
fi


Put this in your ~/.emacs.el :

;; start emacs server
(server-start)
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