Hacking Heaven - Leo+XEmacs Integrated

[Sean Richards]

On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 02:24:22 +1300, Aum wrote:
 
> With the XEmacs integration, I took advantage of the
> 'gnuserver'/'gnuclient' utilities. You can run the shell command
> 'gnuclient file1 file2 ...', and it's just like typing
> 'xemacs file1 file2...' except that the files get opened in an *existing*
> instance of xemacs (provided that such instance has executed the
> '(gnuserver)' function (usually done at xemacs startup).
> 
> I don't know if such utilities exist for vim. You'll need to investigate
> whether there are any options to allow you to, from a shell, open new
> files in existing vim instances.

You can use the 'clientserver' commands. Start vim or gvim with 
'vim --servername {name of choice here}'. Then you can open files in
this instance of vim with 
'vim --remote {file}'


Sean

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