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Alias to make emacs open a file in a new buffer (NOT frame) and be activated/come to front?

What I have so far is

alias em="open -a /Applications/Emacs.app "$@" && osascript -e 'tell application "Emacs.app" to activate'"

But I am stumped.

With that code, em file.txt will activate, but won't open the file. And I get '22:23: syntax error: Expected end of line but found unknown token. (-2741)'

Doing 

alias em=open -a /Applications/Emacs.app "$@"

Works fine and then it will open the file, but obviously not bring emacs to the front.

And for some strange reason 

osascript -e 'tell application "Emacs.app" to activate'

doesn't activate emacs.... I have no idea what is going on.

I am happy to fix this either with alias code, or with .emacs code

edit: see comments for another thing tried.

Solution

  • Could the problem be that you need to escape you quotes, like this?

    alias em="open -a /Applications/Emacs.app \"$@\" && osascript -e 'tell application \"Emacs.app\" to activate'"