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Fritz
Fritz

Reputation: 1

emacs daemon server doesn't start on os x startup

I wrote an "emacsinit" file like

/usr/local/Cellar/emacs/24.1/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs --daemon

and drag the file "emacsinit" into the "Login Items". But it doesn't seem to work. The server doesn't start after system start. How can I deal with it?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 832

Answers (1)

sanityinc
sanityinc

Reputation: 15212

The Login Items scheme likely expects that the launched apps are full app bundles, not just individual shell scripts.

A tool called Platypus can be used to wrap your shell script up as a full application.

Another option is to create an OS X per-user launchd item for Emacs, which is easy if you use an app called Lingon. (Older Lingon versions were free, and will also do the trick.)

For what it's worth, I get all the same advantages with less work by starting the regular Emacs app and then activating the server with the following code:

(require 'server)
(unless (server-running-p)
  (server-start))

After that, I can create new text and graphical frames freely using emacsclient.

Upvotes: 3

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