Re: emacs-mac and emacsclient

[Jean-Christophe Helary <lists@traduction-libre.org>]

> On Dec 22, 2021, at 13:45, Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> Jean-Christophe Helary <lists@traduction-libre.org> writes:
> 
>>> On Dec 22, 2021, at 12:22, Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Jean-Christophe Helary <lists@traduction-libre.org> writes:
>>> 
>>>> I don't want to run it from the GUI, just have it in the package,
>>>> like it is in the official Emacs.app:
>>>> 
>>>> emacs/nextstep/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/emacsclient
>>>> 
>>>> That way I can put it in the path and run it whenever I need to.
>>> 
>>> I don't understand the logic behind putting NS bundles into PATH:
>>> aren't they only supposed to work when run from the Workspace Manager
>>> (i.e. GWorkspace)?  And if you want Emacs in your path, aren't you
>>> supposed to use `--disable-ns-self-contained' instead?
>> 
>> My original question was:
>> 
>>> I'm building emacs-mac locally but it looks like emacsclient is not
>>> included in the final Emacs.app so I have to use
>>> emacs-mac/lib-src/emacsclient which does not seem to be the best way
>>> to do that.
>>> 
>>> Am I missing something during the build process that does not put
>>> emacsclient in Emacs.app ?
>> 
>> What I would like to know is whether there a way to build emacs-mac so
>> that emacsclient is inside the Emacs.app package, just like it is for
>> the generic Emacs.app package.
>> 
>> If you don't have an answer to that, that's totally fine. Maybe it is
>> a question for emacs-devel. I'll wait a few more days here before
>> checking there.
> 
> I was asking a question and advising you to disable the self-contained
> bundle feature at the same time :)

But that's not the way I work with Emacs. I work with Emacs.app in the GUI exclusively and I sometimes need to use emacsclient in a script (applescript) to launch files directly in Emacs.

Having emacs and emacsclient in the path is just a convenience, not a requirement. My requirement is that I can move the Emacs.app package and use the commands that are contained inside the package.


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