Re: emacs[client] --dired filenames

[David Kastrup]

jidanni@deadspam.com (Dan Jacobson) writes:

> $ man emacsclient              
> No manual entry for emacsclient
> ok, anyway
> $ emacsclient --help       
> Usage: emacsclient [-a ALTERNATE-EDITOR] [-n] [--no-wait] [+LINE[:COLUMN]] 
> FILENAME
> Or emacsclient --version
> 
> -n etc. not explained here.  --help not mentioned.  No tip on how to
> see Info page "(emacs)Emacs Server"
> 
> BTW, I wanted to do
> $ emacsclient a001\*
> to get a dired listing of matching files matching a001* ... but no, no
> can do.  Therefore I propose
> $ emacsclient -d filenames
> $ emacsclient --dired filenames
> do like (dired "a001*" nil)
> Also, * or would work, no need for \* ...

It is high time that the GNU Emacs distribution included gnuclient.
A no-brainer using that.


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