3 This plugin utilizes the Emacs daemon capability, allowing the user to quickly open frames, whether they are opened in a terminal via a ssh connection, or X frames opened on the same host. The plugin also provides some aliases for such operations.
5 - You don't have the cost of starting Emacs all the time anymore
6 - Opening a file is as fast as Emacs does not have anything else to do.
7 - You can share opened buffered across opened frames.
8 - Configuration changes made at runtime are applied to all frames.
10 **NOTE:** requires Emacs 24 and newer.
12 To use it, add emacs to the plugins array in your zshrc file:
20 The plugin uses a custom launcher (which we'll call here `$EMACS_LAUNCHER`) that is just a wrapper around [`emacsclient`](https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsClient).
22 | Alias | Command | Description |
23 |--------|----------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------|
24 | emacs | `$EMACS_LAUNCHER --no-wait` | Opens a temporary emacsclient frame |
25 | e | `emacs` | Same as emacs alias |
26 | te | `$EMACS_LAUNCHER -nw` | Open terminal emacsclient |
27 | eeval | `$EMACS_LAUNCHER --eval` | Same as `M-x eval` but from outside Emacs |
28 | eframe | `emacsclient --alternate-editor "" --create-frame` | Create new X frame |
29 | efile | - | Print the path to the file open in the current buffer |
30 | ecd | - | Print the directory of the file open in the the current buffer |