emacsclient: create a frame if a frame does not exist

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Published on 2011-11-16T11:31:47Z Indexed on 2011/11/17 1:54 UTC
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I start emacs server using

emacs --daemon

then open files using

emacsclient filename.ext

but the first file has to be opened using

emacsclient -c filename.ext

in order to create a new frame which can be later used by subsequent files without using -c command line flag for emacsclient.

I want to automate this. "if there is no emacs frame, emacsclient should create a frame else it should use the current frame". How can it be done?

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