Re: Emacs.app for OSX suggestions

[Pavlos Vinieratos]

yes. i was wrong.

like you said, runing emacs from the terminal, initiates every time. launching the app initiates once and connects every next time.

so my real suggestion, is not to quit the app when i close the last window. would that make it so that when i click on the app again, it would open without initializing again? if yes, then thats my suggested change. if it would still initialize, then i would like that fixed.

i might have to find how to test that myself, but is the initialization happening when the app launches, or when the first window is opened?

by initialization i mean eval the init file. if it happens on app launch, then it should br easy to just keep the app running so when i click the app, even if its the first window (after i had the previous windows closed) would open quickly. but if the initialization happens on first window opening, then it might be a bit harder.

thoughts?

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Pavlos Vinieratos

On 18 February 2016 at 10:54:20, pavlos vinieratos (address@hidden) wrote:

Hello. The way Emacs.app works right now, it that it always starts a new session of emacs, so its always slow to open if you have more than an empty init file, and it doesn’t work with the daemon.

I would suggest to change the behaviour of that, and make it so that Emacs.app will start emacsclient, so if a daemon is running, it would connect to it. We could even make it so that it starts a new daemon like `-a “”` would.

I think that would benefit anyone using Emacs.app by doing what those same people would do now, which is to run a command from their shell, that does the above. Why not implement it in the .app, so that when dragging some files onto Emacs.app, it starts quickly because of the daemon?

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Pavlos Vinieratos