Re: launching a single instance of nedit for each text file

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 7:27 AM, Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg-gM/[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 04:12, Yose Widjaja <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Good day,
>>
>> I was wondering if it is possible to enforce the settings of only ever
>> launching one nedit window for each text file? So, from the terminal, if I
>> do "nedit moo.txt" twice, the second one will just bring the existing window
>> to focus.
>>
>> Is there such thing? If not, I guess the only way is to make a script which
>> manually goes through the windows to check if the file has been opened? Is
>> this possible?
> Try using only the NEdit client. Its officially called nc, but it is
> maybe installed as an different name, like nedit-nc or something. Than
> replace all your calls 'nedit ...' with 'nc ...'.
>
> You can read more in the help menu under 'Client/Server Mode'.

This is an old discussion. A lot of folks not aware of 'nc' somehow.
May we should rename the server binary (nedit) to something else, like
nedit-server and rename nc to nedit. Of course they are probably work
to be done to the source to support this.
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