Re: Mac terminal.app: starting emacs, possibly as sudo

[Marius Hofert]

Oh, and something else: Instead of adding 
/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/emacs to PATH (before /usr/bin), 
can't one just remove /usr/bin/emacs and create a link to 
/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/emacs?
There are also emacs-undumped and emacsclient in /usr/bin, not sure what they 
are for, though.

On 2011-10-17, at 01:26 , Perry Smith wrote:

> 
> On Oct 16, 2011, at 5:26 PM, Marius Hofert wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> If I start "emacs" from the Mac terminal (Terminal.app), I get a rather old 
>> GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (/usr/bin/emacs) instead of the wonderful new GNU Emacs 
>> 23.3 I installed. 
>> 1) How can I have the new emacs version opened when typing "emacs" in the 
>> terminal? 
>> 2) Is it possible to start emacs in "sudo mode", so starting  emacs via 
>> "sudo emacs" in the terminal (and then being root when opening a shell from 
>> within emacs)?
>> I know I can have 1) by typing "open -a Emacs.app", but that does not allow 
>> 2). 
> 
> This may take a little experimentation.  I have emacs 23.something compiled 
> for Mac.  I have an application bundle in /Applications called Emacs.app.
> 
> If I run /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/emacs, it starts up in 
> the terminal.  If I run /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs it runs 
> as a GUI (like open -a Emacs.app).
> 
> By running the bin/emacs, you can do sudo before hand and it will give you a 
> root shell prompt (I just tested it.) Be aware that it will be using root's 
> .emacs or .emacs.d files -- not yours.
> 
> The final thing you need is to either make an alias in your .bashrc file -- 
> something like:
> 
> alias emacs=/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/emacs
> 
> or you can change your PATH to point to 
> /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/bin before /usr/bin
> 
> I'm not sure the alias will work with sudo.  Changing the path might be 
> better.  aliases are weird critters.
> 
> HTH,
> pedz
>