First of all I highly recommend installing Cocoa Emacs from homebrew. Look
here for how to install it properly:
https://github.com/sdegutis/using-emacs#installing-emacs-properly

Secondly, you pass args to open via --args (look at `man open`). So it
would be `open -a emacs --args -Q` if you want to launch Cocoa Emacs with -Q

-Steven


On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 7:43 PM, Andrew Pennebaker <
andrew.pennebaker@gmail.com> wrote:

> Good idea!
>
> Unfortunately I haven't been able to emacs -Q in Mac due to my poor setup.
> I can't even pass the option!
>
> Could someone suggest a better way to do this?
>
> $ which emacs
> /usr/bin/emacs
>
> $ cat `which emacs`
> #!/bin/sh
> open -a /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs "$@"
>
> My goal is to be able to launch "emacs <dir/file>" from Terminal.app, such
> that Emacs doesn't steal control over the terminal while it runs.
> Ordinarly, one would use "emacs <dir/file> &", but I like to close the
> terminal, and I don't want Emacs to die with it. So I use "open -a..."
>
> The problem with this arrangement is that this doesn't allow command line
> options to be sent to Emacs. "open" provides --args, but I haven't been
> able to use it properly.
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 7:52 PM, Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> wrote:
>
>> Andrew Pennebaker wrote:
>> > Ruby uses the syntax "... #{expression}..." for string interpolation.
>> But
>> > when I press left curly brace, Emacs says "Symbol's value as variable is
>> > void: last-command-char".
>>
>> This works fine for me in emacs 24.2.1.  And with 23.4.1 too.  What
>> version are you using?
>>
>> > I C-h k {, and saw that { and } are bound to ruby-electric-brace.
>>
>> Same here.
>>
>> > This function appears to be malfunctioning.
>>
>> You didn't say so the obligatory response is, "Have you tried it with -Q?"
>>
>>   emacs -Q
>>
>> Works for me.
>>
>> Bob
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> Andrew Pennebaker
> www.yellosoft.us
>