Symlinking Emacs.app to the $PATH

[Tim Visher]

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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