caldwell
commented
1 year ago Yeah… I basically took those from my setup:
$ type emacs
emacs is aliased to `ec'
$ echo $EDITOR
ec
$ echo $VISUAL
ec
$ which ec
/Users/david/bin/ec
$ cat $(which ec)
#!/bin/sh
/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/emacsclient -nw -c "$@"I don't remember my reasons for all the indirection. It's pretty dumb, isn't it. It's probably something like, I set this up 20 years ago when I didn't know what I was doing and then never bothered to change it 🙂. My linux setup is more straightforward:
$ type emacs
emacs is aliased to `emacsclient -c -nw -a ""'
$ echo $EDITOR
emacsclient -c -nw -a ''
$ echo $VISUAL
emacsclient -c -nw -a ''
The tip for "Running Emacs.app from the command line" works, but I noticed that a modified version of the emacsclient instructions also works and seems cleaner. Instead of creating a shell script, you can just run: sudo ln -s /Applications/Utilities/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs /usr/local/bin/emacs
It's enough simpler that I think it would be worth updating the tip on the web site.
[Thank you for maintaining a build of emacs for macos!]