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My workflow involves splitting frames a lot because I use i3wm. If I use the emacs native make-frame-command, the new frame will be visiting the buffer I invoked the command in. If I call emacsclient from a shell/keyboard short cut however, it default-visits the *scratch* buffer.

I'd like emacsclient to replicate the behaviour of make-frame-command. Is this possible?

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  • All clients of a given server see the same buffer list (because the buffer list is a part of the server, not a part of the client), so your title doesn't make sense. Perhaps you could amend it? Commented Oct 17, 2017 at 9:15
  • Hence the quotation. Commented Oct 17, 2017 at 9:22

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Does this do what you're looking for?

emacsclient -e '(make-frame-command)'

If I do 

emacsclient -e '(make-frame-command)' -t

it opens in a TTY instead of a new GUI frame, but then I have to do 'C-x 5 0' twice to get it to close...

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    That's close to perfect for my needs, I always run in GUI mode anyway. Thanks! Commented Oct 17, 2017 at 8:22
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This hack works best for me

emacsclient -cne '(lambda () (interactive) previous-buffer)'

since emacs is dead set on switching buffers.

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