I had no idea such __passion__ would erupt over this simple little query. :)
Luckily, I hardly ever pass anything but `-fs` to Emacs so I don't
have to worry about most of what you guys are all arguing about.
However, I don't think we've come anywhere close to a resolution. It
will be
On 2008-11-15 10:46:09 -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
No, DO use $*, just remember to quote it like you would any other
variable expansion involving filenames.
I don't understand this answer. If $* is used, then there is no way
to make the difference between
cmd a b
and
cmd a b
On Nov 15, 2008, at 17:52, Jordan Hubbard wrote:
On Nov 15, 2008, at 14:36, Ryan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
MacPorts still supports Tiger so it's useful to provide solutions
that work there.
Well, as I said, I have not run it in many years so it's a bit
harder for me to even
On Nov 14, 2008, at 6:30 PM, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
Here (10.4.11) open doesn't take arguments:
prunille:~ open -a /Applications/MacPorts/Emacs.app -nw foo
2008-11-15 03:22:26.754 open[4228] No such file: /Users/vinc17/-nw
Well, I have not run 10.4 for a number of years now, but it
That works! It's funny but I'm kinda new to the whole `alias` thing,
so I hadn't even thought of doing that. I really need to remember
that's there.
I guess we'll assume that the issue was somewhere in the fact that I
was symlinking it.
Thanks again, Ryan!
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 1:29 AM,
On 2008-11-14 00:29:03 -0600, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
alias emacs='open -a /Applications/MacPorts/Emacs.app'
This won't work with options. It's better to write a wrapper script.
I use the following one:
#!/bin/sh
app=Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs
#emacs=/Applications/$app
test -x $emacs ||
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
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
JFYI, but to correct a misapprehension here, open does take arguments
(for the launched process) so your original idea would have also
worked if you had used a shell function instead of an alias and passed
the args through with $* HTH
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On Nov 14, 2008, at 10:01, Tim
On 2008-11-14 10:12:22 -0800, Jordan Hubbard wrote:
JFYI, but to correct a misapprehension here, open does take arguments
(for the launched process) so your original idea would have also worked
Here (10.4.11) open doesn't take arguments:
prunille:~ open -a /Applications/MacPorts/Emacs.app
On Nov 13, 2008, at 18:22, Tim Visher wrote:
I'm attempting to make Emacs.app my default installation. I read
somewhere that one way to do this is to symlink
/Applications/MacPorts/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs onto your path.
What I've done so far is to `ln -s
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