From: Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org>
To: "Artemio González López" <artemiogl@telefonica.net>
Cc: 29883@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#29883: Emacs server not detected in Mac OS High Sierra
Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2018 15:02:22 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180101150222.GD86834@breton.holly.idiocy.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D875EABB-1F3F-435A-B914-D64EAD60D0C0@telefonica.net>
On Sun, Dec 31, 2017 at 01:55:42AM +0100, Artemio González López wrote:
>
> > On Dec 29, 2017, at 11:12 PM, Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 12:04:41AM +0100, Artemio González López wrote:
> >> When a .tex file is opened in Emacs 25.3.1 under macOS 10.13.2 High
> >> Sierra by double-clicking on it always launches a second instance of
> >> Emacs, even if a server process is already running (launched by a
> >> “(server-start)” line at the beginning of my .emacs file). This
> >> problem did not occur in the previous system (macOS 10.12 Sierra).
> >
> > Hi, thanks for the report.
> >
> > I’m not on 10.13 yet, so I can’t test this. Is it only .tex files that
> > don’t work?
> >
> > When double clicking a file it should open in an existing Emacs
> > instance even without a server process.
> >
> > Do you have more than one Emacs.app installed? Is it possible you need
> > to re‐associate .tex files with the correct Emacs? (Get Info ‐> Open With)
>
> Dear Alan,
>
> Thanks for your reply. First of all, I have checked that I don’t
> have other Emacs.app’s installed in my computer. Secondly, I’ve
> already tried reassociating my .tex file with Emacs.app, to no
> avail. Thirdly, the problem occurs with all types of files, not just
> .tex ones. In fact, even if I drag the file icon to Emacs.app’s icon
> in the dock, a second instance is launched. The only way to avoid
> this that I know of is to drag the file’s icon over an open Emacs
> window, which is very inconvenient. From what I’ve heard (see, e.g.,
> https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/37164/run-only-one-instance-of-emacs-on-macos)
> this problem is specific of 10.13 (it did not occur in 10.12) and
> Emacs for Mac OS X. It would be nice if somebody having access to
> 10.13 looked at it, because it’s quite annoying (in my case, when
> the second instance of Emacs.app is opened it complains of an
> existing server, etc.).
Thanks for letting us know, and please keep the bug tracker cc’d in so
other people can see your responses (and hopefully help out).
--
Alan Third
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-01 15:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-28 23:04 bug#29883: Emacs server not detected in Mac OS High Sierra Artemio González López
2017-12-29 22:12 ` Alan Third
[not found] ` <D875EABB-1F3F-435A-B914-D64EAD60D0C0@telefonica.net>
2018-01-01 15:02 ` Alan Third [this message]
2018-01-03 7:27 ` Tak Kunihiro
2018-01-03 14:24 ` Artemio González López
2018-01-03 15:21 ` Alan Third
2018-01-03 23:03 ` Tak Kunihiro
2018-01-04 0:00 ` Artemio González López
2020-08-10 15:11 ` Stefan Kangas
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