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

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 09:58, TK Soh <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.
There is also the idea to merge these too binaries. I think your
proposal would be a good interim step to reach this goal.

Bert
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