Herbert Sitz <hs...@nwlink.com> wrote: > Herbert Sitz <hsitz <at> nwlink.com> writes: > > > I'm working on Windows7 and have an Emacs client running when I issue the > > batch command, which I assumed also means there is a running emacs server. > > Is the > > call getting made to the running emacs server? If so, is there some way to > > avoid the startup overhead (which seems to come from 'Adding c:/program > > files > > (x86)/emacs/EmacsW32/lisp/ to load path.'). Or, if my batch call is _not_ > > making use of the running Emacs server is there some way to get it to use > > that > > server? > > > > Herb > > > > I can confirm that a new emacs process is getting created to run each batch > mode > command. I don't really understand the emacs-client/emacs-server setup is > supposed to work. So I guess my question is whether my batch-mode command can > be made as a client of the existing emacs-server. I'm guessing the answer is > 'No', but if so maybe there's some other way to speed up creation of the new > emacs process when it's used solely to process an Org source-code-block? >
You do M-x server-start on the running emacs to start the server part. Then you invoke emacsclient from the command line to connect to it - check the manpage of emacsclient for details: you might be able to arrange something with the --eval argument. Nick
