Launchers for Emacs, Emacs daemon and Emacs client
MacOS only
Launchers for Emacs in standard mode, Emacs in daemon mode and Emacs as client.
No app path required.
You don’t have to add path to your emacs application into this app.
Version agnostic
If you have installed using brew or some other methods then you know if you
upgrade the emacs version will change the application path.
This app doesn’t care about that.
Works with other Emacs applications like Emacs-plus etc.
As long as they can be accessed from the terminal using the standard bash
commands.
Spacemacs icon
Download and copy all three .app files into your Application directory.
You can launch using double-clicking or using spotlight.
Apps included:
Emacs.app: Launch the full emacs version.
This app executes a bash script called script with contents
#!/usr/bin/env bash/usr/local/bin/emacs
Emacsserver.app: Launch only the server. This will create a small textbox
and print some initializing messages of emacs and the textbox closes. But there
will be a emacs --daemon process running in background.
This app executes a bash script called script with contents
#!/usr/bin/env bash/usr/local/bin/emacs --daemon
Emacsclient.app: To launch the Emacs “window” or the frame. Use this app.
But when closing make sure you close only the frame not including the daemon
instance.
This app executes a bash script called script with contents
#!/usr/bin/env bash/usr/local/bin/emacsclient -a '' -c
The Emacsclient.app can only launch only one frame if no frame is available.
This is because of how MacOS works. MacOS only allows one instance of app to
launch.
But to create more frames then use the command make-frame within emacs.
In Spacemacs its SPC F n.
To launch more instance of the emacsclient application itself then you can use
the terminal and run open Emacsclient.app.
I use emacs-plus but I launch emacs-plus/something-else using separate
alias in my terminal. What are my options?
If you want to use Emacs-plus, then you must make sure its can be launched by running emacs on terminal,
else you have 2 options
Create an alias to emacs-plus and assign to emacs in your bash profile
You will have to modify the contents of the respective script file to
match what you use to launch the app from your terminal.
Do I need to use Emacsserver.app everytime I start my computer?
Not really. Unless you want to close and start the daemon instance you don’t need this app.
But you will have to make arrangements to launch emacs deamon some other way.
I prefer using the system launcher to do that everytime I start my Mac.
You can run this in your shell to do that.
ln -sfv /usr/local/opt/emacs*/*.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgentslaunchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.emacs*.plist
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