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alexmurray / emacs-snap

GNU Emacs in a snap
https://snapcraft.io/emacs
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Tried the snap install emacs, but how to run etags? #7

Closed mattiasw2 closed 4 years ago

mattiasw2 commented 4 years ago

Do I need to add anything to the path?

alexmurray commented 4 years ago

Snap package commands are exposed in the form of packagename.command - so the emacs snap provides the emacs, emacsclient, etags etc commands but these are namespaced to emacs.etags, emacs.emacsclient etc. So you can run emacs.etags to run etags.

However, snap commands can then have aliases - so you could set up an etags alias as:

sudo snap alias emacs.etags etags

So then you can run etags without the emacs. prefix.

The snap store provides a default alias for emacs itself since it is the name of the package - so that is why there is no emacs.emacs command and so no specific alias is needed for emacs.