Re: Emacs, Mac OS X and opening from Shell

[Alberto Simões]

Hi all,

Sorry for posting at the top, but I think this is the correct place for
this:

as far as i can tell, the sh script I think is being executed, is not.
So, sorry, as I wasn't really testing emacsclient :-(

Best,
Alberto

On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 7:42 PM, Chunyang Xu <xuchunyang56@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Alberto Simões writes:
>
> > Dear Emacs users,
> >
> > I've been an Emacs user for some decades, but never a really emacs
> hacker.
> > In the latest months I've been using Sublime for Mac, but I am missing
> > emacs a lot.
> >
> > So, in the come back, I am trying to make the emacs command to open an
> > emacs window, if one is open, or opening a new buffer in the current
> window
> > (and focus that buffer if possible).
>
> open(1) works for me, for example,
>
>     $ open -a Emacs ~/.emacs.d/init.el
>
> if *.el has been set Emacs as its default opening App, you can also omit
> '-a Emacs':
>
>     $ open ~/.emacs.d/init.el
>
> It should work out-of-box, i.e., no configuration needed from the Emacs
> side, the following should works for you:
>
>     # Start a fresh Emacs
>     $ open -a /Applications/Emacs.app -n --args -Q
>     # Open a file
>     $ open -a /Applications/Emacs.app ~/.emacs.d/init.el
>
>
> BTW, emacsclient(1) works as well. After 'M-x server-start' from a GUI
> Emacs window:
>
>     $ emacsclient --no-wait ~/.emacs.d/init.el
>
> > Currently, my emacs command line is a shell script that looks like this:
> >
> >    /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs "$@" &
> >
> > This, of course, open a new window (although I usually close it, as the
> > buffers are shared among windows).
> >
> > Any idea how I can make it behave as I described earlier?
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Alberto
>
> --
> Chunyang Xu
>



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Alberto Simões