bug#37796: 26.3; Opening files in Mac OS Catalina

bug#37796: 26.3; Opening files in Mac OS Catalina

[Stephen Moye via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors]

Setup: Mac OS Catalina (10.15); iMac Late 2015. All .tex files are
opened with Emacs.app (Get info>Open with: Emacs.app; using 'change all')

1. To begin, Emacs.app is not open
2. Double-click on a .tex file -> the file opens in Emacs.app
3. Double-click on another .tex file -> brief animation as if opening
file, but file does not open in Emacs.app.
4. Using Command-o (open) gives the same result, a brief animation as if
opening but file does not open
5. Using Command-tab to go back to Emacs.app opens a new instance of
Emacs.app (two icons in the Dock) with a default scratch buffer.

Using C-x C-f to open files functions normally.

Thank you.

Stephen Moye


In GNU Emacs 26.3 (build 1, x86_64-apple-darwin18.2.0, NS appkit-1671.20 Version 10.14.3 (Build 18D109))
of 2019-09-02 built on builder10-14.porkrind.org
Windowing system distributor 'Apple', version 10.3.1894
Recent messages:
Removing duplicates...done
Applying style hooks...done
Type ‘C-c C-l’ to display results of compilation.
LaTeX: successfully formatted {1} page
mwheel-scroll: Beginning of buffer [23 times]
Sorting environment...done
Removing duplicates...done
GNU Emacs 26.3 (build 1, x86_64-apple-darwin18.2.0, NS appkit-1671.20 Version 10.14.3 (Build 18D109)) of 2019-09-02
You can run the command ‘emacs-version’ with M-x em-v RET
GNU Emacs 26.3 (build 1, x86_64-apple-darwin18.2.0, NS appkit-1671.20 Version 10.14.3 (Build 18D109)) of 2019-09-02

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bug#37796: 26.3; Opening files in Mac OS Catalina

[Spoon Reloaded]

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I have the same problem. If the Emacs app is not open, and I drag a file
onto it, it opens. But if I drag a second file onto the Emacs app when it
is already open, nothing happens.

This happens on both version 26.3 (the latest release available from
emacsformacosx.com) as well as the latest nightly version, 2019-10-21, from
emacsformacosx.com.

I see the following line in Console when I try to open the second file:
LaunchedApplication: failed with error -13052 (null){
"ApplicationType"="Foreground",
"BundleIdentifierLowerCase"="org.gnu.emacs",
"CFBundleExecutablePath"="/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs",
"CFBundleExecutablePathDeviceID"=16777220,
"CFBundleExecutablePathINode"=39467615,
"CFBundleIdentifier"="org.gnu.Emacs", "CFBundleName"="Emacs",
"CFBundlePackageType"="APPL", "CFBundleSignature"="EMAx",
"LSASN"=ASN:0x0-0x4c24c2:, "LSBundlePath"="/Applications/Emacs.app",
"LSBundlePathDeviceID"=16777220, "LSBundlePathINode"=39467589,
"LSDisplayName"="Emacs", "LSExecutableFormat"="LSExecutable#!Format",
"LSLaunchDLabel"="org.gnu.Emacs.6084", "LSLaunchedByLaunchServices"=true,
"LSLaunchedWithLaunchD"=true, "LSLaunchEventRecordTime"=354943849105239,
"LSLaunchTime"=now-ish 2019/10/21 14:33:40, "LSParentASN"=ASN:0x0-0x25025:,
"LSWantsToComeForwardAtRegistrationTimeKey"=true, "pid"=47579 }

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bug#37796: 26.3; Opening files in Mac OS Catalina

[Alan Third]

Spoon Reloaded <spoon.reloaded@gmail.com> writes:

> I have the same problem. If the Emacs app is not open, and I drag a
> file onto it, it opens. But if I drag a second file onto the Emacs app
> when it is already open, nothing happens.
>
> This happens on both version 26.3 (the latest release available from
> emacsformacosx.com) as well as the latest nightly version, 2019-10-21,
> from emacsformacosx.com.
>
> I see the following line in Console when I try to open the second file:
> LaunchedApplication: failed with error -13052 (null){ "ApplicationType"="Foreground", "BundleIdentifierLowerCase"="org.gnu.emacs", "CFBundleExecutablePath"="/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs", "CFBundleExecutablePathDeviceID"=16777220, "CFBundleExecutablePathINode"=39467615, "CFBundleIdentifier"="org.gnu.Emacs",
> "CFBundleName"="Emacs", "CFBundlePackageType"="APPL", "CFBundleSignature"="EMAx", "LSASN"=ASN:0x0-0x4c24c2:, "LSBundlePath"="/Applications/Emacs.app", "LSBundlePathDeviceID"=16777220, "LSBundlePathINode"=39467589, "LSDisplayName"="Emacs", "LSExecutableFormat"="LSExecutable#!Format", "LSLaunchDLabel"="org.gnu.Emacs.6084",
> "LSLaunchedByLaunchServices"=true, "LSLaunchedWithLaunchD"=true, "LSLaunchEventRecordTime"=354943849105239, "LSLaunchTime"=now-ish 2019/10/21 14:33:40, "LSParentASN"=ASN:0x0-0x25025:, "LSWantsToComeForwardAtRegistrationTimeKey"=true, "pid"=47579 }
>

-- 
Alan Third

bug#37796: 26.3; Opening files in Mac OS Catalina

[HaPsantran]

Me too.

Potentially related thread:

https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/53248/finder-of-macos-catalina-cannot-open-a-file-with-emacs

Would be delighted to learn of a good fix here; this is a serious problem.

Thank you!



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bug#37796: 26.3; Opening files in Mac OS Catalina

[Stefan Kangas]

HaPsantran <jesse@finoptimal.com> writes:

> Potentially related thread:
>
> https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/53248/finder-of-macos-catalina-cannot-open-a-file-with-emacs
>
> Would be delighted to learn of a good fix here; this is a serious problem.

For anyone who is following this, there was a suggested fix posted in
the above SO thread on December 15 that might be of interest.  One
user reported it was working for them.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas

bug#37796: 26.3; Opening files in Mac OS Catalina

[Alan Third]

On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 10:43:48AM +0100, Stefan Kangas wrote:
> HaPsantran <jesse@finoptimal.com> writes:
> 
> > Potentially related thread:
> >
> > https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/53248/finder-of-macos-catalina-cannot-open-a-file-with-emacs
> >
> > Would be delighted to learn of a good fix here; this is a serious problem.
> 
> For anyone who is following this, there was a suggested fix posted in
> the above SO thread on December 15 that might be of interest.  One
> user reported it was working for them.

Hmm, so looks like it’s a problem with the emacsformacosx.com builds.
-- 
Alan Third

bug#37796: 26.3; Opening files in Mac OS Catalina

[Stefan Kangas]

Hi David,

We suspect that a bug reported to Emacs might be specific to
emacsformacosx.com builds.  Could you please help look into it and
tell us what you think?

You can find the details here:
https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=37796

Thanks in advance.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas

Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org> writes:

> On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 10:43:48AM +0100, Stefan Kangas wrote:
>> HaPsantran <jesse@finoptimal.com> writes:
>> 
>> > Potentially related thread:
>> >
>> > https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/53248/finder-of-macos-catalina-cannot-open-a-file-with-emacs
>> >
>> > Would be delighted to learn of a good fix here; this is a serious problem.
>> 
>> For anyone who is following this, there was a suggested fix posted in
>> the above SO thread on December 15 that might be of interest.  One
>> user reported it was working for them.
>
> Hmm, so looks like it’s a problem with the emacsformacosx.com builds.

bug#37796: bug#37873: 26.3; Can't open file in Finder in Mac OS Catalina

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org> writes:

> Hmm, so looks like it’s a problem with the emacsformacosx.com builds.

(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately weren't resolved
at the time.)

So this should be reported to the emacsformacosx.com people, and I'm
therefore closing this report in the Emacs bug tracker.

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