How to start “emacsformacosx” in terminal

Question

I am using MAC OX 10.6 , and install the emacs from here http://emacsformacosx.com/

I want to know how to start it in terminal, so my ecb can open current directory<

Answer 1

It is actually quite easy, just run it from terminal like this:

/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs -nw

the -nw option means to start emacs without the gui frame.

You can put the following in your shell (on my mac .zshenv) :

alias Emacs="/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs -nw"

Then I just have two commands:

Emacs : for emacs version 24

emacs : for the apple version of emacs

Of course you can just alias the Emacs.app to emacs, but this allows me to customize the two differently - for instance Emacs 24 allows me to use list-packages and so forth. emacs 22 ignores most of this, so I can always revert to a 'bare metal' emacs if need be. Your usage may vary, but if you don't remember the arguments to emacs you can find them by doing this:

emacs --help

Some interesting ones:

Emacs.app --fullscreen
Emacs.app --line-spacing
Emacs.app --vertical-scroll-bars

More info here : http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Option-Index.html#Option-Index