Automatically pick major mode about emacs-anywhere HOT 9 CLOSED

That's a good idea, I'll finally become famous! 😍

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Oh, thanks! 😊

I think a start would be to define a hook variable and add a call to that (using run-hook-with-args) in the progn you pass to emacsclient to execute.

Next step would be to somehow bake the window title in as the argument. This could probably be done by interpolating it as a constant in the bash script.

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I think this can now be closed @zachcurry ? Awesome work in #40!

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Let me start by saying that I'm a big fan of your work @Fuco1 ! You have added a lot of value to what I get out of Emacs!

Just to give some quick context, this is my first Gtihub repo and my skills with bash, elisp, and Emacs are elementary at best. I could really use the guidance of someone like yourself.

I agree that it would be cool to have some logic/config to set the major mode. I've never considered looking at the window titles but it sounds like a great idea! I will defer to your judgement on how this should be achieved.

Thanks @Fuco1 !

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Your advice was very helpful @Fuco1 !. I've got this working in OS X and it's pretty sweet! I'm really glad you thought of this feature!

At the moment I'm passing both the application name and window title to the hook functions since I've found the window title can be just about anything depending on the context and the application. Let me know if you have any concerns about this or if this is not what you'd had in mind.

I'll switch over to Linux and try to get that working as soon as I can. I'll start by checking out xwininfo as you suggested.

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@zachcurry Very cool! You can open a pull request or push a branch if you have any troubles so I can review it, I'd be more than happy to!

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@Fuco1 I'm pushing and making a PR right now. Any help will be greatly appreciated! I know I don't know anything about bash or Emacs Lisp, so don't hesitate to school me on this stuff! If you want, feel free to push to this project at will; no need to run it by me.

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@Fuco1 I can't thank you enough for suggesting this feature and acting as my remote code sensei in #40. Epic contribution my friend!

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Also, I'm thinking about adding an achievements section to the README (like spacemacs has). I hope you don't mind if I put this in there as my all time favorite feature request 😄

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