Re: emacs-mac and emacsclient

[Po Lu]

Jean-Christophe Helary <lists@traduction-libre.org> writes:

>> On Dec 22, 2021, at 12:22, Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Jean-Christophe Helary <lists@traduction-libre.org> writes:
>> 
>>> I don't want to run it from the GUI, just have it in the package,
>>> like it is in the official Emacs.app:
>>> 
>>> emacs/nextstep/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/emacsclient
>>> 
>>> That way I can put it in the path and run it whenever I need to.
>> 
>> I don't understand the logic behind putting NS bundles into PATH:
>> aren't they only supposed to work when run from the Workspace Manager
>> (i.e. GWorkspace)?  And if you want Emacs in your path, aren't you
>> supposed to use `--disable-ns-self-contained' instead?
>
> My original question was:
>
>> I'm building emacs-mac locally but it looks like emacsclient is not
>> included in the final Emacs.app so I have to use
>> emacs-mac/lib-src/emacsclient which does not seem to be the best way
>> to do that.
>> 
>> Am I missing something during the build process that does not put
>> emacsclient in Emacs.app ?
>
> What I would like to know is whether there a way to build emacs-mac so
> that emacsclient is inside the Emacs.app package, just like it is for
> the generic Emacs.app package.
>
> If you don't have an answer to that, that's totally fine. Maybe it is
> a question for emacs-devel. I'll wait a few more days here before
> checking there.

I was asking a question and advising you to disable the self-contained
bundle feature at the same time :)

Thanks.