Re: Cannot start Emacs from Finder on macOS Ventura

[Ruijie Yu]

Eric Swenson <eric@swenson.org> writes:

> I’ve gotten no answers to my earlier query:
>
> I recently decided to update my Homebrew-installed emacs, and because only
> version 28.2 was available, I decided to try the emacs-nightly HomeBrew cask.
> Installation went find, and I’m able to invoke the GUI emacs by simply 
> executing
> “emacs” in a zsh shell.  When I do, it comes up in the dock, and I can set the
> “Keep in dock” menu item from the dock icon’s Options context menu.  If I exit
> emacs, however, I’m unable to launch it via the dock, nor by clicking on
> /Applications/Emacs.app in Finder.  The only way I appear to be able to start 
> it
> is via the command line.

Try to run the emacs executable inside Emacs.app directly and see if
that does anything different.  As you noted earlier, your `emacs'
command in zsh is a zsh function -- try to run
/Applications/Emacs.app/path/to/emacs (don't remember the exact path but
hopefully you get the idea).

Best,


RY