Symlinking Emacs.app to the $PATH

[Jordan Hubbard]

I believe open just passes filename args, probably because it  
canonicalizes them before passing to LaunchServiced. So it passes  
args, just not *any* args (and if you think about passing context  
across address spaces, it even makes sense).

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On Nov 15, 2008, at 15:03, Rainer Müller <raimue at macports.org> wrote:

> Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
>> 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!
>
> Hm, it does not take arguments on 10.5.5 (9F33) for me either.
>
> $ open -a /Applications/MacPorts/Emacs.app -nw foo
> open: invalid option -- w
> Usage: open [-e] [-t] [-f] [-W] [-n] [-g] [-h] [-b <bundle  
> identifier>]
> [-a <application>] [filenames]
> Help: Open opens files from a shell.
> ...
>
> Don't know what other version of 10.5 you are using, but I doubt it's
> something that was released to the public if it is working there :-)
>
> Rainer