Emacs from an alias/function

Question

uname -a Linux antixbox 4.9.235-antix.1-amd64-smp #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon
Sep 14 19:26:52 EEST 2020 x86_64 GNU/Linux
 
emacs --version GNU Emacs 27.1

echo $SHELL /usr/bin/zsh

I'm trying to get the following to work:

em() {   emacs $1 -geometry "56x23" }

I want to use it as follows e.g. with an existing file:

em testfile.txt

Emacs does launch, but no file buffer.

If I edit the function and replace nano for emacs (and get rid of the geometry stuff), the function works perfectly.

Answer 1

Maybe run Emacs as a server and then edit files with emacsclient?

I have an alias

e='emacsclient -nw'

And is using it like

$ e foobar.txt