Mercurial > emacs
changeset 47650:5dbc6d83f14d
Add info about --eval and --display.
| author | Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> |
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| date | Fri, 27 Sep 2002 18:47:28 +0000 |
| parents | 3b27be508d4e |
| children | 0c66d7531f3e |
| files | etc/NEWS man/misc.texi |
| diffstat | 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/etc/NEWS Fri Sep 27 18:30:30 2002 +0000 +++ b/etc/NEWS Fri Sep 27 18:47:28 2002 +0000 @@ -60,6 +60,11 @@ * Changes in Emacs 21.4 +++ +** The `emacsclient' understand the options `--eval' and `--display' +which tell Emacs resp. to evaluate the given elisp expressions and +to use the given display when visiting files. + ++++ ** The mode line position information now comes before the major mode. When the file is maintained under version control, that information appears between the position information and the major mode.
--- a/man/misc.texi Fri Sep 27 18:30:30 2002 +0000 +++ b/man/misc.texi Fri Sep 27 18:47:28 2002 +0000 @@ -1300,6 +1300,16 @@ function which will communicate with a running Emacs server, or start one if none exists. +If you use several displays, you can tell Emacs on which display to +open the given files with the option @samp{--display=@var{DISPLAY}}. +This can be used typically when connecting from home to an Emacs +server running on your machine at your workplace. + +You can also use @code{emacsclient} to execute any piece of Emacs Lisp +code, using the option @samp{--eval}. When this option is given, the +rest of the arguments is not taken as a list of files to visit but as +a list of expressions to evaluate. + @node Hardcopy, PostScript, Emacs Server, Top @section Hardcopy Output @cindex hardcopy