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What I have so far is

alias em="open -a /Applications/Emacs.app "$@" && osascript -e 'tell application "Emacs.app" to activate'"

But I am stumped.

With that code, em file.txt will activate, but won't open the file. And I get '22:23: syntax error: Expected end of line but found unknown token. (-2741)'

Doing 

alias em=open -a /Applications/Emacs.app "$@"

Works fine and then it will open the file, but obviously not bring emacs to the front.

And for some strange reason 

osascript -e 'tell application "Emacs.app" to activate'

doesn't activate emacs.... I have no idea what is going on.

I am happy to fix this either with alias code, or with .emacs code

edit: see comments for another thing tried.

tobeannounced
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  • It looks like you really want to use `emacsclient` in combination with an emacs server. – pmr Feb 05 '12 at 16:58

4 Answers4

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Try this: 

(setq ns-pop-up-frames nil)

Works fine for me.

Found it here

LoveAndCoding
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jeff
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I have the following in my .bashrc sourced by my .profile:

alias emacs='open -a /Applications/Emacs.app "$@"'

And in my .emacs custom area:

(custom-set-variables
 ;; yadda yadda
 ;;...
 '(ns-pop-up-frames nil))

Or if you don't like to M-x customize-variable your way into it, as Jeff said:

(setq ns-pop-up-frames nil)

I didn't need any AppleScript to do this; although I noticed you were missing the end tell? Anyway, works like a charm for me, pops Emacs open, or uses the existing window if there is one, and it's on top, and the Terminal remains ready for more input.

courtlandj
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Could the problem be that you need to escape you quotes, like this?

alias em="open -a /Applications/Emacs.app \"$@\" && osascript -e 'tell application \"Emacs.app\" to activate'"
Puppe
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  • Thanks, got rid of the error, but now it tries to load the directory of the file rather than the file, and doesn't activate the Emacs window. Strange. Any ideas? – tobeannounced May 21 '11 at 01:43
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You can use:

emacsclient -nt somefile

in your terminal, which would open specified file(s) in new buffer using your existing frame rather than a new client frame.

http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/emacsclient-Options.html

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