~/Library/Preferences/Emacs Īll of these directories are added to the load path list.Īquamacs will also automatically load all files names site-start.el in the load path list. ~/Library/Application Support/Aquamacs Emacs Library/Application Support/Aquamacs Emacs At startup, it will load files named customizations.el and Preferences.el from these directories at startup: /Library/Application Support/Emacs So, the complete answer is as follows.Īt startup, Aquamacs will load this file: ~/.emacsĪquamacs will find any libraries in the following directories and their subdirectories, and also in the ~/.emacs.d directory. There are further source files that will be loaded. ~/Library/Preferences/Aquamacs Emacs/customizations.el ~/Library/Preferences/Aquamacs Emacs/Preferences.el In short, your settings should be stored in these files ~/.emacs Trouble-shooting one's settings: which files are loaded at startup? If you’ve been using Emacs for decades and find yourself surprised by some of the changes to the user interface in Aquamacs, have a look at AquamacsEmacsCompatibilitySettings, which demonstrates how to turn off features that are most surprising to Emacs-oldtimers. It also supports the execution of arbitrary Emacs Lispįorms and also does not require the client program to wait forĬompletion.Frequently Asked Questions for AquamacsEmacsĬonfiguration Tips: CustomizeAquamacs Aquamacs for Emacs traditionalists Internet domain sockets, so it can work across most networkĬonnections. Which is available in the Emacs Lisp Archive. There is an enhanced version of Emacsclient/Server called Gnuserv You should invokeĮmacsclient either from another window or from a shell
The Emacs process should notīe suspended at the time you invoke Emacsclient. Pathnames that Emacsclient specifies should be correct for theįile system that the Emacs process sees. Note: Emacsclient and Server must be running onĬomputers which share the same file system for this to work. Notification of this to Server which will pass this on to Emacsclient, When you have invoked C-x # on all of theįiles that Emacsclient requested to be edited, Emacs will send Will switch to another buffer created at the request of Emacsclient if After editing aįile, you can type C-x # to indicate this. Have to switch to the Emacs window by hand. (You can specify line numbers just like with Emacs.) You will Process, which at the next opportunity will visit the files specified. Receives these requests, it sends this information on the Emacs Socket and passes its command line options to Server. When Emacsclient is run, it connects to the. Setenv EDITOR /usr/local/emacs/etc/emacsclient # using full pathnameĮDITOR=emacsclient export EDITOR Normal use Pathname of the Emacsclient program, for example: Setting the environment variable EDITOR (or sometimes VISUAL) to the To invoke Emacsclient from your newsreader, mail reader, etc., try Server creates a Unix domain socket in the user's home When you do this, Emacs starts a subprocess running a program called (if (some conditions are met) (server-start)) You can do this by entering the following command line option:Īnother way to invoke Server-start is from the. In order for Emacsclient to work, you must first execute the Server-startįunction. It does this by sending a request to the already running Emacs, which Running Emacs session rather than starting up a new one. The Emacsclient program can let you edit a file using an already Information here may no longer be accurate, and links may no longer be available or reliable. This content has been archived, and is no longer maintained by Indiana University.