Emacs Server via Emacs.app

Emacs Server via Emacs.app

[Tim Visher]

Hello Everyone,

I'd like to get emacs server running again just like we got ispell
working for me again.  I'm not sure what I'm missing this time.  I
started emacs from the command line via `open Emacs.app` and that
worked fine, loading my PATH etc. but now emacsclient can't find the
server.  I typically start the server via `.emacs` and that works on
Windows but not here, apparently.

Thoughts?

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Timmy V.

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Re: Emacs Server via Emacs.app

[Sean Bryant]

On 2010-02-03 13:12:47 -0500, Tim Visher said:

> Hello Everyone,
> 
> I'd like to get emacs server running again just like we got ispell
> working for me again.  I'm not sure what I'm missing this time.  I
> started emacs from the command line via `open Emacs.app` and that
> worked fine, loading my PATH etc. but now emacsclient can't find the
> server.  I typically start the server via `.emacs` and that works on
> Windows but not here, apparently.
> 
> Thoughts?

Actually look inside the Emacs.app folders and find the emacsclient 
bundled inside.

For example the emacs that I build on OS X has the emacsclient buried 
in Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/

That's the one you want to use not the one in path since OS X comes 
with emacs as part of the OS.

Re: Emacs Server via Emacs.app

[Steve Revilak]

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>From: Tim Visher <tim.visher@gmail.com>

>I'd like to get emacs server running again just like we got ispell
>working for me again.  I'm not sure what I'm missing this time.  I
>started emacs from the command line via `open Emacs.app` and that
>worked fine, loading my PATH etc. but now emacsclient can't find the
>server.  I typically start the server via `.emacs` and that works on
>Windows but not here, apparently.

Tim,

Which emacsclient are you running?

   /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/emacsclient 

Should have no difficulty finding the server socket for Emacs.app.

On the other hand, Apple's /usr/bin/emacsclient seems to have a
different opinion of where the server socket should be.

You could 

   alias emacsclient=/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/emacsclient

You could also prepend /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/bin to
PATH, to use Emacs.app's helper programs instead of their
Apple-bundled counterparts.

I personally favor prepending
/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/bin to PATH.  I also add a
one-line shell script to that directory:

   $ cat /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/emacs
   #!/bin/sh
   exec /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs -nw "$@"

so that I can run Emacs in a terminal window by just typing `emacs'.
This is my way of compensating for the fact that the NextStep port
doesn't put the Emacs binary in `bin'.

Steve

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Re: Emacs Server via Emacs.app

[Tim Visher]

On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 10:22 PM, Steve Revilak <steve@srevilak.net> wrote:
>> From: Tim Visher <tim.visher@gmail.com>
>
>> I'd like to get emacs server running again just like we got ispell
>> working for me again.  I'm not sure what I'm missing this time.  I
>> started emacs from the command line via `open Emacs.app` and that
>> worked fine, loading my PATH etc. but now emacsclient can't find the
>> server.  I typically start the server via `.emacs` and that works on
>> Windows but not here, apparently.
>
> You could also prepend /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/bin to
> PATH, to use Emacs.app's helper programs instead of their
> Apple-bundled counterparts.

Thanks so much Steve.  This is exactly what I was looking for.  I
never noticed the bin directory in MacOS.

-- 

In Christ,

Timmy V.

http://burningones.com/
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