dtemacs(1)

💖 dtemacs — the manual page, but make it make sense 💖

okay bestie, pull up a chair, we're reading the dtemacs(1) page from the General Commands Manual together and it's gonna be so quick, i promise 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

dtemacs — contact Emacs with gnuclient, starting Emacs if no answer.

like. that's it. that's the whole job. she's a little matchmaker between you and Emacs 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

dtemacs

no arguments listed, no flags listed, nothing. just vibes. she takes everything you throw at her and hands it off (more on that in a sec) ✨

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the tea: dtemacs tries to contact Emacs with gnuclient, and if nobody answers? she starts Emacs herself. main character energy fr fr 👑

and not me being obsessed with this next part — she passes all options straight through to gnuclient. so whatever you give her, gnuclient gets. periodt.

also this version is standalone and doesn't need any fancy elisp. no extra config, no weird setup, just her doing her thing 🌈

💀 BUGS 💀

okay this is the part where we hold hands, because:

dtemacs will not work (or behave unpredictably) if your .emacs startup file calls the function gnuserv-start.

so if you've got gnuserv-start chilling in your .emacs, she's gonna be a mess. not her fault, but also, be warned 😭

🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

• emacs(1)
• gnuserv(1)

go read those too, iykyk 📚

👑 AUTHOR 👑

this manual page was written by Benjamin Drieu <benj@@debian.org> for the Debian system (but may be used by others). it's placed under public domain. iconic of him honestly 🌟

and that's the whole page bestie!! thanks for reading with me, this was the dtemacs(1) page from the General Commands Manual — short, sweet, and she ate 💖✨🎀🦋