config/oh-my-zsh/plugins/emacs

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 the current buffer