How do I provide a command-line option to emacsclient?

Question

I start emacsclient using:

emacsclient -a "" -c

This opens a frame connected to the emacs daemon, and starts the daemon if it's not already started. Great, this works fine.

However, I like opening my emacs frames maximized. With emacs, I would use -mm. However, that doesn't work with emacsclient. How do I make this work?

(It seems I could make something work by adding a shell file like so: emacsclient -a "myshell.sh" -c, where the shell file is: emacs -mm, but I haven't been able to make that work - the server doesn't stay up.)

Answer 1

You can add the following line to .emacs, so that Emacs can be started with the window maximized. See http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Size-Parameters.html#Size-Parameters for details.

(add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(fullscreen . maximized))

Emacs client accepts -F option, where you can specify frame parameters, so the above example would be:

emacsclient -c -a "" -F "((fullscreen . maximized))"