Emacs plugin

This plugin utilizes the Emacs daemon capability, allowing the user to quickly open frames, whether they are opened in a terminal via a ssh connection, or X frames opened on the same host. The plugin also provides some aliases for such operations.

• You don't have the cost of starting Emacs all the time anymore
• Opening a file is as fast as Emacs does not have anything else to do.
• You can share opened buffered across opened frames.
• Configuration changes made at runtime are applied to all frames.

NOTE: requires Emacs 24 and newer.

To use it, add emacs to the plugins array in your zshrc file:

plugins=(... emacs)

Aliases

The plugin uses a custom launcher (which we'll call here $EMACS_LAUNCHER) that is just a wrapper around emacsclient.

| Alias | Command | Description | |--------|----------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------| | emacs | $EMACS_LAUNCHER --no-wait | Opens a temporary emacsclient frame | | e | emacs | Same as emacs alias | | te | $EMACS_LAUNCHER -nw | Open terminal emacsclient | | eeval | $EMACS_LAUNCHER --eval | Same as M-x eval but from outside Emacs | | eframe | emacsclient --alternate-editor="" --create-frame | Create new X frame | | efile | - | Print the path to the file open in the current buffer | | ecd | - | Print the directory of the file open in the current buffer |