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Start Emacs.app from CLI
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| #!/usr/bin/perl | |
| # Emacs starter for Emacs mac port | |
| # Thanks to Aquamacs Project and David Reitter | |
| my $args = ""; | |
| my $tmpfiles = ""; | |
| for my $f (@ARGV) { | |
| $args .= '"'.$f.'" '; | |
| $tmpfiles .= '"'.$f.'" ' if (! -e $f); | |
| } | |
| system("touch $args") if ($tmpfiles); | |
| system("open -a /Applications/Emacs.app $args"); | |
| # delay deletion because AE drag&drop doesn't work with non-existing documents | |
| system("(sleep 3; rm $tmpfiles) &") if ($tmpfiles); | |
| exit; | |
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On macOS, I like this solution:
osascript -e 'tell application "Finder" to make alias file to POSIX file "/opt/homebrew/opt/emacs-mac@29/Emacs.app" at POSIX file "/Applications/"'