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From: Ruijie Yu via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Eric Swenson <eric@swenson.org>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Cannot start Emacs from Finder on macOS Ventura
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2023 21:03:13 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <sdvbkn522la.fsf@fw.net.yu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CY8PR19MB7249B78ECBA4D18434C30B13A0FC9@CY8PR19MB7249.namprd19.prod.outlook.com>


Eric Swenson <eric@swenson.org> writes:

> I’ve gotten no answers to my earlier query:
>
> I recently decided to update my Homebrew-installed emacs, and because only
> version 28.2 was available, I decided to try the emacs-nightly HomeBrew cask.
> Installation went find, and I’m able to invoke the GUI emacs by simply executing
> “emacs” in a zsh shell.  When I do, it comes up in the dock, and I can set the
> “Keep in dock” menu item from the dock icon’s Options context menu.  If I exit
> emacs, however, I’m unable to launch it via the dock, nor by clicking on
> /Applications/Emacs.app in Finder.  The only way I appear to be able to start it
> is via the command line.

Try to run the emacs executable inside Emacs.app directly and see if
that does anything different.  As you noted earlier, your `emacs'
command in zsh is a zsh function -- try to run
/Applications/Emacs.app/path/to/emacs (don't remember the exact path but
hopefully you get the idea).

Best,


RY



  reply	other threads:[~2023-01-11  3:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-01-09 23:11 Cannot start Emacs from Finder on macOS Ventura Eric Swenson
2023-01-10  1:23 ` Emacs for early Macs? (was: Re: Cannot start Emacs from Finder on macOS Ventura) [screenshot] Emanuel Berg
2023-01-10  2:11   ` Eric Swenson
2023-01-10  3:59     ` Emanuel Berg
2023-01-10  5:12   ` Emacs for early Macs? Po Lu
2023-01-10  5:43     ` Emanuel Berg
2023-01-10 10:33   ` Emacs for early Macs? (was: Re: Cannot start Emacs from Finder on macOS Ventura) [screenshot] Jean Louis
2023-01-10 21:57     ` Emanuel Berg
2023-01-11  1:04 ` Cannot start Emacs from Finder on macOS Ventura Eric Swenson
2023-01-11  3:03   ` Ruijie Yu via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [this message]
2023-01-16  0:00     ` Eric Swenson
2023-01-11  6:25   ` Daniel Fleischer
2023-01-11  6:44     ` John Covici
2023-01-15 22:54       ` Eric Swenson
2023-01-15 23:55     ` Eric Swenson

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