Symlinking Emacs.app to the $PATH

[Jordan Hubbard]

JFYI, but to correct a misapprehension here, open does take arguments  
(for the launched process) so your original idea would have also  
worked if you had used a shell function instead of an alias and passed  
the args through with $*  HTH

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On Nov 14, 2008, at 10:01, Tim Visher <tim.visher at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the tip, vincent.  I implemented what you suggested and it
> appears to work.
>
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 9:14 AM, Vincent Lefevre
> <vincent-opdarw at vinc17.org> wrote:
>> On 2008-11-14 00:29:03 -0600, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>> alias emacs='open -a "/Applications/MacPorts/Emacs.app"'
>>
>> This won't work with options. It's better to write a wrapper script.
>> I use the following one:
>>
>> #!/bin/sh
>>
>> app="Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs"
>> #emacs="/Applications/$app"
>> test -x "$emacs" || emacs="/Applications/MacPorts/$app"
>> test -x "$emacs" || emacs="/usr/bin/emacs"
>>
>> exec "$emacs" ${SSH_CONNECTION:+-nw} ${SCREEN_IN_SSH:+-nw} "$@"
>>
>> This also allows Emacs to automatically run in the terminal (instead
>> of the physical screen) when it is a ssh session (one can also do
>> this for a screen session recalled from a ssh session, but this
>> needs some config).
>>
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