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# Emacs plugin
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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.
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- You don't have the cost of starting Emacs all the time anymore
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- Opening a file is as fast as Emacs does not have anything else to do.
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- You can share opened buffered across opened frames.
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- Configuration changes made at runtime are applied to all frames.
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**NOTE:** requires Emacs 24 and newer.
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To use it, add emacs to the plugins array in your zshrc file:
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```zsh
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plugins=(... emacs)
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```
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## Aliases
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The plugin uses a custom launcher (which we'll call here `$EMACS_LAUNCHER`) that is just a wrapper around [`emacsclient`](https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsClient).
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| Alias | Command | Description |
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| emacs | `$EMACS_LAUNCHER --no-wait` | Opens a temporary emacsclient frame |
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| e | `emacs` | Same as emacs alias |
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| te | `$EMACS_LAUNCHER -nw` | Open terminal emacsclient |
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| eeval | `$EMACS_LAUNCHER --eval` | Same as `M-x eval` but from outside Emacs |
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| eframe | `emacsclient --alternate-editor="" --create-frame` | Create new X frame |
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| efile | - | Print the path to the file open in the current buffer |
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| ecd | - | Print the directory of the file open in the current buffer |
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