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Emacs as daemon on OS X with window-system

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I'm running gnu emacs 23.3.1 cocoa build on OS X 10.6. I added the following to ~/Library/LaunchAgents/gnu.emacs.daemon.plist so that it will start a daemon and automatically restart emacs if I inadvertently kill it. This sorta works but I noticed that my color theme wasn't working properly. Then I…

Error Output

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" 
    "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> 
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Running a process or application as a launchd daemon gives it a very different environment from running it normally or on the command line. I wonder if it might not work better to instead use a shell script as a login item. For example: This script …

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