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:

zsh

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