Getting emacsclient to work with https://emacsformacosx.com

A-EMACS-MAC-OS.md

Getting emacsclient to work on MacOS

1. Download Emacs from https://emacsformacosx.com or use your favorite distribution, but then make sure to have an EMACSCLIENT path exported
2. Create ~/bin/emacsclient
3. Create ~/bin/edit
4. Make sure ~/bin is on your PATH and has precedence over /usr/bin (otherwise the default MacOS emacsclient will be visible, which you should avoid)
5. Edit your emacs.el

edit

#!/bin/bash 

exec emacsclient -c -n $@

emacs.el

(load "server")
(unless (server-running-p) (server-start))

emacsclient

#!/bin/bash

path="${EMACSCLIENT:-/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/emacsclient}"

if [ ! -f "$(which lsof)" ]; then
    osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to display dialog "Make sure you have `lsof` installed on your system." buttons "OK" default button 1 with title "Unable to locate system utility"' >/dev/null 2>&1 &
    exit 1
fi

if [ ! -f "$path" ]; then
    osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to display dialog "Make sure you have Emacs for Mac installed on your system, go to emacsformacosx.com" buttons "OK" default button 1 with title "Unable to locate Emacs"' >/dev/null 2>&1 &
    exit 2
fi

socket_file=$(lsof -c Emacs | grep server | tr -s " " | cut -d' ' -f8)

if [[ $socket_file == "" ]]; then
    exec "$path" --alternate-editor="" $@
else
    exec "$path" -s $socket_file $@
fi