An Emacs server built on HTTP and JSON

The builtin Emacs server is built on Unix domain socket, another-emacs-server is builton HTTP and JSON. Because the response is JSON, it's easy and reliable for other tool to consume.

Usage

Run M-x another-emacs-server to start the server. Send

• {"eval": "expr"} to eval an expression
• {"file": ["filename1", "filename2", ...]} to open files

For example,

~ $ curl -s -d '{"eval": "emacs-version"}' -H "Content-Type: application/json" localhost:7777 | jq
{
  "result": "27.0.90"
}

~ $ curl -s -d '{"file": ["/etc/hosts"]}' -H "Content-Type: application/json" localhost:7777 | jq
{
  "result": "OK"
}

Requires

• Emacs 25.1
• web-server 20200312