Re: Suggestion: Make emacsclient act as a new frame

[Stefan Monnier]

> It would be nice if at some future time emacsclient was actually
> interactive, functioning like a new frame on the principal emacs client,
> rather than just blocking while you have to tab to the principal emacs
> client to edit, then return.  This makes quick editor jobs for things like
> crontab -e much more convenient because you do not have to switch
> windows/terminals, yet you still have the full functionality of emacs and
> access to your other open buffers for purposes of cut/paste and so forth.

You can customize the `server-window' to be a function that opens a new
frame.  Currently the only suggested one is pop-to-buffer which does the
right thing for me (I have pop-uo-frames set to t).  But we should probably
add more, so suggestions welcome.


        Stefan