[OS X Emacs] command line

[William Slough]

Just for a bit of closure on my ill-timed and less-than-helpful comments,
please allow me to add two things:

1. According to the aquamacs wiki, aquamacs apparently does not process any
command-line arguments beyond the filename.  See the statement at

    https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/AquamacsFAQ#toc24

    for a bit more detail.

2. Quite some time ago, another aquamacs user wanted to open a file with
aquamacs at a specific line and discovered it wasn't directly supported.
However, some AppleScript was given to achieve this, so perhaps that might
work in this situation also.  See:


https://superuser.com/questions/345936/aquamacs-open-and-jump-to-line-number

for details.


On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 4:49 PM William Slough <wslough at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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