Symlinking Emacs.app to the $PATH

[Jordan K. Hubbard]

On Nov 14, 2008, at 6:30 PM, Vincent Lefevre wrote:

> Here (10.4.11) "open" doesn't take arguments:
>
> prunille:~> open -a /Applications/MacPorts/Emacs.app -nw foo
> 2008-11-15 03:22:26.754 open[4228] No such file: /Users/vinc17/-nw

Well, I have not run 10.4 for a number of years now, but it certainly  
works on 10.5, so get off the stick and upgrade already.  Leopard was  
released over a year ago!

>> if you had used a shell function instead of an alias and passed the  
>> args
>> through with $*  HTH
>
> No, do *not* use $* as arguments with spaces would be passed  
> incorrectly
> with bash (and other POSIX shells):

No, DO use $*, just remember to quote it like you would any other  
variable expansion involving filenames.  It's not like there's any  
other useful way to pass arguments to an alias or shell function,  
sheesh!

- Jordan