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I don't launch Emacs from the shell. If I need to do something quick in the shell I use zile (simple console text editor with emacs keybindings). I also don't

by naner 14y ago

I don't launch Emacs from the shell. If I need to do something quick in the shell I use zile (simple console text editor with emacs keybindings). I also don't close Emacs often so I don't need to invoke it frequently...

Myrmornis 14y ago
You might like using the emacs server. (require 'server) (server-start) Then some shell aliases for instantaneous emacs from the shell: alias e="emacsclient --no-wait" Now $ e myfile.c in the shell will open the file instantaneously in the running emacs and the OS will switch window focus to emacs. I use this a lot; magit-status on the current repo: $ cat ~/bin/egit emacsclient --no-wait \ --eval "(magit-status \"$PWD\")" \ --eval "(progn (select-frame-set-input-focus (selected-frame)) (delete-other-windows))"
- naner 14y ago
  Yes, I've used it before. It isn't really necessary for my uses. Also it's easier to sudo zile than go through Tramp for editing system files.
  - Myrmornis 14y ago
    Agree about tramp not being the solution. How is zile an improvement over emacs -nw -q ?
    - naner 14y ago
      Fewer characters? :) I dunno. I've done that in the past (actually using a separate init), too. Zile just seems simpler and it works fine for me. There's a billion ways to do things, it is hard to justify idiosyncrasies. I think what started it was that I drastically simplified my emacs init file (used to be several files, very smart and thought-out but massive and filled with rarely-used stuff) and I found myself always popping into nano for quick edits to system files. Well this quickly got annoying as there were conflicting key bindings with emacs and my muscle-memory was causing frequent errors. So I googled an emacs-flavored nano and settled on the first one I tried. Then I aliased nano to 'echo "USE ZILE"' until that became second nature, too.

by naner 14y ago

Myrmornis 14y ago

You might like using the emacs server. (require 'server) (server-start) Then some shell aliases for instantaneous emacs from the shell: alias e="emacsclient --no-wait" Now $ e myfile.c in the shell will open the file instantaneously in the running emacs and the OS will switch window focus to emacs. I use this a lot; magit-status on the current repo: $ cat ~/bin/egit emacsclient --no-wait \ --eval "(magit-status \"$PWD\")" \ --eval "(progn (select-frame-set-input-focus (selected-frame)) (delete-other-windows))"

naner 14y ago
Yes, I've used it before. It isn't really necessary for my uses. Also it's easier to sudo zile than go through Tramp for editing system files.
- Myrmornis 14y ago
  Agree about tramp not being the solution. How is zile an improvement over emacs -nw -q ?
  - naner 14y ago
    Fewer characters? :) I dunno. I've done that in the past (actually using a separate init), too. Zile just seems simpler and it works fine for me. There's a billion ways to do things, it is hard to justify idiosyncrasies. I think what started it was that I drastically simplified my emacs init file (used to be several files, very smart and thought-out but massive and filled with rarely-used stuff) and I found myself always popping into nano for quick edits to system files. Well this quickly got annoying as there were conflicting key bindings with emacs and my muscle-memory was causing frequent errors. So I googled an emacs-flavored nano and settled on the first one I tried. Then I aliased nano to 'echo "USE ZILE"' until that became second nature, too.