Is it possible to make the 'emacs' shell command open in the current instance ?

[deb0ch]

I would like that when I use commands such as emacs, ne or emacsclient from an Emacs terminal, Emacs opens the file in the current Emacs instance.

Is it possible using with-editor ?

If not at the moment, is it something that would be possible to implement ?

[tarsius]

That's what emacsclient file is supposed to do, even without with-editor. If that doesn't work for you, then that probably means that you didn't start the server in the running emacs instance.

[deb0ch]

emacsclient kind of does it, but if I have several instances it will always choose another one.

I wonder if there is a way to make it work seamlessly for ne and emacs commands though.

[tarsius]

I don't know what ne is, some wrapper script I suppose? But for emacs the answer is no, that always starts a new instance. As for emacsclient always choosing another instance: I think it always uses the instance which uses the default socket (and that's always under the control of the first instance you started). But really I don't use emacsclient except for committing with magit/with-editor, so you should ask elsewhere for help.

And to answer your original question: no, with-editor cannot help with this scenario, or be made to do so. I suspect that you will end up having to write a shell-script which wraps emacs and emacsclient. I once wrote one, but I am afraid I lost it. But there most be others in the wild.

[deb0ch]

Ok, thank you so much for your insights, that was really helpful ! 👍

I thought for the longest time that with-editor could help me with that, but I guess I never dug deep enough to realize that no.

Well, I guess I'll see you around ! Take care and thank you for the awesome Magit !

[tarsius]

Your welcome!