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The one thing I hate about emacs client (and I was bitching about it on #emacs the other day as well) is that in OS X, a windowed client will just "hang" when e

The one thing I hate about emacs client (and I was bitching about it on #emacs the other day as well) is that in OS X, a windowed client will just "hang" when exited. It will still be visible in the cmd-tab list, and thus isn't truly exited. Hence, if I want to remove that annoying non-running client, I basically have to kill the daemon and restart. This is particularly annoying when I'm editing configuration. And in many cases, using just the terminal isn't enough because there are quite a few quirks when using emacs in the terminal, the most recent one I found was that <shift><tab> is interpreted as M-[. I wish there was some way to fix this. :(

michaelsbradley 12y ago
It's not the client that hangs around in the cmd-tab list (and as an icon in the dock) – what's signified is the process for the Emacs daemon. I agree that it would be nice if it could be configured/made to disappear. I use terminal-mode emacsclient on my Mac all day everyday, and `C-h k` shows <shift+tab> is interpreted as <backtab>. That's the case for Terminal.app and iTerm2, though I only use the latter. I'm not sure why yours interprets it as M-[.
psibi 12y ago
I think the hanging thing can be solved by invoking emacsclient in the following way: `emacsclient -n`.
- michaelsbradley 12y ago
  -n serves a different purpose (the command returns immediately). Even when using that flag, there will be an Emacs icon in the cmd-tab list and the dock after the client is closed.
JadeNB 12y ago
I don't have an `.app`-ified copy of Emacs around to check, but there is a way to hide apps from the Dock and the Cmd-Tab switcher; see http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20010701191518268 http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=2001070119151826... . Specifically, you can add <key>LSUIElement</key> <true /> to your app's Info plist (at `$PATH_TO_APP/Contents/Info.plist`). As the other comments point out, this also hides the app's menubar, which may or may not be desireable.

michaelsbradley 12y ago

It's not the client that hangs around in the cmd-tab list (and as an icon in the dock) – what's signified is the process for the Emacs daemon. I agree that it would be nice if it could be configured/made to disappear. I use terminal-mode emacsclient on my Mac all day everyday, and `C-h k` shows <shift+tab> is interpreted as <backtab>. That's the case for Terminal.app and iTerm2, though I only use the latter. I'm not sure why yours interprets it as M-[.

psibi 12y ago

I think the hanging thing can be solved by invoking emacsclient in the following way: `emacsclient -n`.

michaelsbradley 12y ago
-n serves a different purpose (the command returns immediately). Even when using that flag, there will be an Emacs icon in the cmd-tab list and the dock after the client is closed.

JadeNB 12y ago

I don't have an `.app`-ified copy of Emacs around to check, but there is a way to hide apps from the Dock and the Cmd-Tab switcher; see http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20010701191518268 http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=2001070119151826... . Specifically, you can add <key>LSUIElement</key> <true /> to your app's Info plist (at `$PATH_TO_APP/Contents/Info.plist`). As the other comments point out, this also hides the app's menubar, which may or may not be desireable.