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>>> In article <STEINARB.91May18185940@fenris.idt.unit.no>,
>>> "Steinar" == steinarb@idt.unit.no (Steinar Bang) writes:

Steinar> These concepts surface in the GNU newsgroups from time to time. I have
Steinar> a vague idea (which may have no relation to reality whatsoever ;-)
Steinar> about what they are:
Steinar>   1. emacsclient: This is a "lightweight" emacs that have only a few
Steinar>                   buffers of its own (only one perhaps?). It edits a
Steinar>                   text file/text buffer piped down to it through a
Steinar>                   socket connection/pipe from another program. It has
Steinar>                   no file operations of its own(?).
Steinar>   2. emacsserver: This is a server process that maintains buffers,
Steinar>                   reads and writes files, runs emacs lisp commands,
Steinar>                   controls sub-processes and creates/destroys
Steinar>                   emacsclients at need.
Steinar>   3. gnuserv    : The original emacs server, written by Andy Norman.

    * emacsclient/server is a system that allows you to send REQUESTS to
      edit files to an existing Emacs process.  You can tell emacs to start
      a server process using "(server-start)".  Any emacsclient process can
      then contact the server process, specifying a file path (and possibly
      line number), and the server will then signal Emacs to edit the
      specified file.  Note that this assumes that the emacsclient and
      Emacs itself both see the same file system (so that they're talking
      about the same file).
        Note that neither emacsclient or the server have any direct support
      for files, buffers, etc --- they are simply a means of contacting an
      existing Emacs process.

    * gnuserv/gnuclient is Andy Norman's replacement for the standard Emacs
      client/server.  It provides a slightly more robust implementation,
      and one better suited for running Emacs and clients on different
      machines (ie. it's more network-aware).  The gnuserv package also
      includes a program called gnudoit, which allows you to request an
      Emacs process to evaluate an arbitrary elisp form.  This can be
      useful for invoking Emacs functions from a shell script or X Window
      Manager menu. 

    These packages are useful if you wish to use emacs as your text editor
  for other interactive programs (news/mail readers being the main
  example), without having the overhead of starting up a new Emacs each
  time.  emacsclient/server is standard with the Emacs distribution (look
  for /usr/local/emacs/emacsclient, /usr/local/emacs/lisp/server.el).
  I'm sure gnuserv must be availble for FTP somewhere ... contact Andy
  Norman  <ange@hplb.hpl.hp.com> for details.

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