#EMACS FOR MAC OSX HOW TO#

Instead, I decided to use the Emacs client to start the server, if it cannot detect a running Emacs. 1 2,581 4.6 Emacs Lisp homebrew-emacsmacport VS exwm Emacs X Window Manager SonarQube.

However, I never found this to be useful. Mac OS intercepts and handles certain key combinations (e.g., - for switching input languages). 1 17,668 8.7 Swift homebrew-emacsmacport VS Rectangle Move and resize windows on macOS with keyboard shortcuts and snap areas exwm.

#EMACS FOR MAC OSX HOW TO#

there is lots of information on Google about how to install Emacs using the latter, including some threads in this forum. If you want to build Emacs yourself (with some help), then most people seem to gravitate towards homebrew. To start the Emacs server, it is possible to ask macOS to launch the Emacs daemon automatically when the user logs in (see here). is a reliable distribution and has been around for several years, and there are also bleeding edge builds available from that maintainer. This was when I realized that I should investigate the client/server mode. What I wanted was for the running Emacs to open a new buffer.

The problem with the emacs shell command, though, was that if I use it to open a second document, a new instance of Emacs would be launched. However, I eventually decided to switch to the GUI mode because I liked how org-mode documents are rendered in GUI mode. I used to use emacsnw exclusively, because I thought that managing an addition macOS window was a hassle. Function emacs () alias emacsnw = '/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs -nw'

Emacs for mac osx