Comments on: Emacs.app on Mac OS X Leopard

By: Michael V. O'Brien

Michael V. O'Brien — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 01:29:26 +0000

(setq ns-pop-up-frames nil) FTW! Thanks. I hadn't had a chance to look into that problem yet.

By: mrflip

mrflip — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:41:24 +0000

Incidentally — if you open files in Emacs.app using the

open -a /Applications/Emacs.app "$@"

method and you are annoyed by the fact that it opens a new frame (window) for each file — add

(setq ns-pop-up-frames nil)

to your .emacs and fixed.

By: Abhijit Choudhury

Abhijit Choudhury — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:45:47 +0000

I did everything mentioned. But when I click on the icon nothing happens.
Any thoughts on how to debug ? I'm a Mac newbie.

Thanks,
Abhijit

By: Koet

Koet — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:01:18 +0000

Hi Jonathan,
use:
open -a /Applications/Emacs.app
^^
Cheers!

By: Laurie

Laurie — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 01:43:49 +0000

Thank you! This worked great for me after I used sudo for the link.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:09:34 +0000

Thanks a lot!
This method works great and saved me a lot of frustration!
Francesco

By: Gabo

Gabo — Sat, 10 May 2008 23:02:50 +0000

He Jonathan,

Well, I never ever have any problem with emacs. The thing, perhaps, is that I do not use “open whatever.app”. I have a little script called “MacEmacs” that contains the following two lines:

#!/bin/sh
/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs $@ &

Why? Because I had to be able to use emacs on the terminal when working from home on my mac at the office, so having a different “emacs” for terminal orfor desktop was important for me. In any event, you can call the script anything you want (except perhaps “emacs”, because it might go into circles, eternal loops). Anyway, this would open your files, if new no errors will happen.

Have fun!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 01 May 2008 15:58:22 +0000

Thanks.

After a little searching on the internet for the syntax, I was able to get the font and size set in my .emacs file.

As for #1, for the present, I just wrote a simple shell script that checks the input, and if it finds that any of the files don’t exist, it “touches” them, then calls “open”. This is not ideal, because it will pre-create the file that wouldn’t normally be created until a “write”, and therefore will leave an empty file lying around if I decide I don’t really want to save the file after all. But until I find a better solution, this will at least prevent my getting an error whenever I launch emacs in the way I am so used to doing.

-Jonathan

By: michael

michael — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:16:53 +0000

1. Hmmm. I rarely ever do that. I don’t know how to get `open` to do that. I almost always do C-x C-f and C-x C-w.

2. Emacs.app uses Carbon instead of X11. That is why your ~/.Xdefaults don’t do anything. I haven’t changed the fonts from there default. I’m sure you can set them in your .emacs file. Also, SHIFT-Clicking opens a font menu.

Sorry my response isn’t more helpful this time.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 20:26:30 +0000

Two more problems. Yup, that works. Two more problems though:

1. If I type “emacs filename” where filename doesn’t exist (which is how I’m used to creating a new file), it just prints an error that the file does not exist, instead of opening a blank buffer with the desired filename.

2. Where/how can I set the default font and geometry? ~/.Xdefaults does not seem to be doing anything, and using “open”, I can’t seem specify that info as a command line argument.

Thanks.

-Jonathan