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If I invoke emacsclient with emacsclient -na runemacs file1 emacsclients switch to the frame containing file1. But if later I invoke emacs with emacsclient -na runemacs file2 emacsclient opens file2 in the existing frame of file1.

On the other hand emacsclient -cna runemacs file1 always creates a new frame regardless of if file1 is already opened or not.

I prefer that emacsclient creates a new frame of a file if that file is not already open in the existing frames, otherwise emacsclient switchs to the frame containing it.

I guess I should send some elisp code by -e option to the emacsclient for checking this but I was not able to find the right code.

There is a related question Make emacsclient create a frame only if there isn't one already without an accepted answer. The upvoted answer there uses a bash script hence not a pure elisp solution.

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