Run emacs GUI from emacsclient

Question

I am running emacs 25.1.

I have emacs server starting as a daemon on startup and I can open an emacs terminal session with the following alias:

alias em="emacsclient -t"

How can I start the emacs gui in a similar fashion?

See [MJ Wall's scripts](http://mjwall.com/blog/2013/10/04/how-i-use-emacs/) on using `emacsclient`. — Tianxiang Xiong, Apr 01 '17 at 01:31

dgtized · Answer 1 · 2017-03-27T07:43:44.780

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If "start emacs gui in a similar fashion" is hoping to create a gui frame backed by the same daemon, then

alias ec="emacsclient --create-frame"

will instantiate another emacs frame backed by the same daemon. --create-frame can also be abbreviated with -c. -t or -nw or --tty are requesting the default for emacsclient which is to open another frame in a tty instead of a gui frame.

See the gnu emacsclient commandline options for more details.

edited Mar 27 '17 at 07:43

answered Mar 26 '17 at 00:43

dgtized

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You could include a link to the doc https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/emacsclient-Options.html#emacsclient-Options – JeanPierre Mar 26 '17 at 08:40

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 31 '17 at 08:26

For me on ubuntu 16.04, after started emacs server edit your /usr/share/applications/emacs24.desktop like this

TryExec=/usr/bin/emacsclient -c                                                                                                                                          
Exec=/usr/bin/emacsclient -c %F

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 09 '17 at 10:58

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My solution:

alias ecw="emacsclient --c"

and use ecw to start emacs in GUI.

answered Dec 09 '17 at 10:58

ice1000

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score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 26 '18 at 21:12

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For fish shell, this works for me:

function ec
    emacsclient --create-frame $argv &
end

answered Oct 26 '18 at 21:12

Dogweather

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Run emacs GUI from emacsclient

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