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+ 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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* Harald Hanche-Olsen     <URL:http://www.math.ntnu.no/~hanche/>
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