[OS X Emacs] command line

[William Slough]

Oops. It looks like I spoke too soon --- I now see that the response
describing options is about "open", not "aquamacs."

Bill

On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 4:46 PM William Slough <wslough at gmail.com> wrote:

> I tried this:
>
>   > aquamacs -version
>
> and was greeted with the following error message shown below. Perhaps this
> is enough information to answer your question? I have not updated my
> aquamacs in quite some time, so perhaps the options are somewhat different
> in a more modern version.
>
> Bill Slough
>
> open: invalid option -- r
>
> Usage: open [-e] [-t] [-f] [-W] [-R] [-n] [-g] [-h] [-s <partial SDK
> name>][-b <bundle identifier>] [-a <application>] [filenames] [--args
> arguments]
>
> Help: Open opens files from a shell.
>
>       By default, opens each file using the default application for that
> file.
>
>       If the file is in the form of a URL, the file will be opened as a
> URL.
>
> Options:
>
>       -a                Opens with the specified application.
>
>       -b                Opens with the specified application bundle
> identifier.
>
>       -e                Opens with TextEdit.
>
>       -t                Opens with default text editor.
>
>       -f                Reads input from standard input and opens with
> TextEdit.
>
>       -F  --fresh       Launches the app fresh, that is, without restoring
> windows. Saved persistent state is lost, excluding Untitled documents.
>
>       -R, --reveal      Selects in the Finder instead of opening.
>
>       -W, --wait-apps   Blocks until the used applications are closed
> (even if they were already running).
>
>           --args        All remaining arguments are passed in argv to the
> application's main() function instead of opened.
>
>       -n, --new         Open a new instance of the application even if one
> is already running.
>
>       -j, --hide        Launches the app hidden.
>
>       -g, --background  Does not bring the application to the foreground.
>
>       -h, --header      Searches header file locations for headers
> matching the given filenames, and opens them.
>
>       -s                For -h, the SDK to use; if supplied, only SDKs
> whose names contain the argument value are searched.
>
>                         Otherwise the highest versioned SDK in each
> platform is used.
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 3:40 PM Stephen Anderson <sra.linguist at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Would it be possible to get more information on the command line
>> invocation of Aquamacs? I ask because I use Aquamacs as an external editor
>> for LaTeX files with TexShop as a viewer, and the latest version of TexShop
>> has begun to make synchronization with external editors possible.  This
>> involves writing a simple shell script that invokes the editor in question
>> on the file being previewed in TexShop at the relevant line. For example,
>> it is suggested that the relevant file for bbedit integration would be
>>
>> > #!/bin/sh
>> > /usr/local/bin/bbedit "$2:$1”
>>
>> For TextMate, the equivalent would be
>>
>> > #!/bin/tcsh
>> >      set path= ($path /Library/TeX/texbin /usr/texbin /usr/local/bin)
>> >      /usr/local/bin/mate --line $1 $2
>>
>> or (for /bin/sh) with provision for spaces in file names,
>>
>> >       #!/bin/sh
>> >       /usr/local/bin/mate --line "$1" "$2”
>>
>> The point is that this functionality seems to be provided if the
>> command-line version of the editor allows arguments to specify a file and a
>> line in that file. What arguments does the command-line version of Aquamacs
>> allow? Unfortunately, installing the tool does not also install a man entry
>> for it, and I can’t find the answer in the Aquamacs manual itself.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Stephen R. Anderson
>> Dorothy R. Diebold Professor of Linguistics, Emeritus
>> Yale University
>>
>>
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