Emacs opening to files when asked to open one

Emacs opening to files when asked to open one

[Alberto Simões]

Hello

Under MacOS (NS) I added an alias to open files directly on the shell:

[ambs@rachmaninoff VisitasDI]$ alias emacs
alias emacs='/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs'

This way I can use:
   $emacs foo &

and it works.

But, if I do
  $ emacs public_html/index.html &
(in fact, any file that is not in current dir)
emacs will open it, but also an empt index.html, not sure where.

Any hint on how to solve?
Would this be a bug (weird , but possible), or is there any better way
to alias an emacs command?

Thank you
Alberto

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Alberto Simões

Re: Emacs opening to files when asked to open one

[Harald Hanche-Olsen]

+ Alberto Simões <hashashin@gmail.com>:

> Under MacOS (NS) I added an alias to open files directly on the shell:
>
> [ambs@rachmaninoff VisitasDI]$ alias emacs
> alias emacs='/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs'
>
> or is there any better way to alias an emacs command?

Try this instead:  open -a emacs filename

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Re: Emacs opening to files when asked to open one

[Barry Margolin]

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In article <pcoocuwwe2f.fsf@math.ntnu.no>,
 Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@math.ntnu.no> wrote:

> + Alberto Simões <hashashin@gmail.com>:
> 
> > Under MacOS (NS) I added an alias to open files directly on the shell:
> >
> > [ambs@rachmaninoff VisitasDI]$ alias emacs
> > alias emacs='/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs'
> >
> > or is there any better way to alias an emacs command?
> 
> Try this instead:  open -a emacs filename

Or use /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/macOS/bin/emacsclient

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Re: Emacs opening to files when asked to open one

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 16.04.2009 um 19:08 schrieb Alberto Simões:

> alias emacs='/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs'
>
> This way I can use:
>    $emacs foo &

This is inappropriate. Every time you're launching a new instance of  
Emacs.app. Better start the server and use emacsclient to open files!

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Re: Emacs opening to files when asked to open one

[Alberto Simões]

2009/4/17 Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@web.de>:
>
> Am 16.04.2009 um 19:08 schrieb Alberto Simões:
>
>> alias emacs='/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs'
>>
>> This way I can use:
>>   $emacs foo &
>
> This is inappropriate. Every time you're launching a new instance of
> Emacs.app. Better start the server and use emacsclient to open files!

That seems interesting. How is the server started?

Thank you, and sorry for my ignorance :)
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Alberto Simões

Re: Emacs opening to files when asked to open one

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 17.04.2009 um 22:04 schrieb Alberto Simões:

> That seems interesting. How is the server started?

(server-start) in ~/.emacs for example ...

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Re: Emacs opening to files when asked to open one

[Alberto Simões]

Hello

2009/4/17 Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@web.de>:
>
> Am 17.04.2009 um 22:04 schrieb Alberto Simões:
>
>> That seems interesting. How is the server started?
>
> (server-start) in ~/.emacs for example ...
>

Well, if the server is not running I need to start emacs first.
Couldn't emacsclient start it automatically if it isn't running?

Cheers

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Alberto Simões

Re: Emacs opening to files when asked to open one

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 18.04.2009 um 16:48 schrieb Alberto Simões:

> Couldn't emacsclient start it automatically if it isn't running?

You can check whether it works better when you launch Emacs.app as a  
daemon, maybe as a Mac OS X StartupItem. (I'm not that experienced  
with this daemonic mode of operation.)

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