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I installed emacs with homebrew and cask:

brew cask install emacs

It installed emacs 25.1.1.

I then linked the plist file to start emacs as a daemon on start up with:

launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.emacs.plist

I added the following exports:

export ALTERNATE_EDITOR=""
export EDITOR="emacsclient -t"terminal
export VISUAL="emacsclient -c -a emacs"

I have the following aliases:

alias em="emacsclient -t"
alias emax="emacsclient -c -a emacs"

The first one will open emacs in the terminal window and works fine but the second alias which I thought would open the GUI.

It does open the Gui but the terminal window is holding onto the process until I close the Guid down at which point it kills the emacs process and the daemon.

It displays the following text:

Waiting for Emacs...

How can I open the GUI in a new process and shut it down without killing the daemon?

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Add -n to switches when invoking emacsclient. That's the thing you're looking for.

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  • I mean the desktop app which I have the following alias for: ema='open -a /Applications/Emacs.app $1'. Is it possible to open this with emacs client?
    – dagda1
    Commented Mar 26, 2017 at 7:13
  • Just point it to emacsclient and add -n to switches.
    – user12563
    Commented Mar 26, 2017 at 10:58

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