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Re:Spacemacs – Emacs advanced kit focused on Evil by manish_gill on Friday April 17, 2015 @01:04PM (#9395640)
The one thing I hate about emacs client (and I was bitching about it on #emacs the other day as well) is that in OS X, a windowed client will just "hang" when exited. It will still be visible in the cmd-tab list, and thus isn't truly exited. Hence, if I want to remove that annoying non-running client, I basically have to kill the daemon and restart. This is particularly annoying when I'm editing configuration.

And in many cases, using just the terminal isn't enough because there are quite a few quirks when using emacs in the terminal, the most recent one I found was that <shift><tab> is interpreted as M-[.

I wish there was some way to fix this. :(

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Re:Spacemacs – Emacs advanced kit focused on Evil by JadeNB on Sunday April 19, 2015 @09:28PM (#9405669)
I don't have an `.app`-ified copy of Emacs around to check, but there is a way to hide apps from the Dock and the Cmd-Tab switcher; see http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=2001070119151826... . Specifically, you can add

    <key>LSUIElement</key>
    <true />
to your app's Info plist (at `$PATH_TO_APP/Contents/Info.plist`). As the other comments point out, this also hides the app's menubar, which may or may not be desireable.
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Re:Spacemacs – Emacs advanced kit focused on Evil by psibi on Friday April 17, 2015 @02:31PM (#9396227)
I think the hanging thing can be solved by invoking emacsclient in the following way: `emacsclient -n`.
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Re:Spacemacs – Emacs advanced kit focused on Evil by michaelsbradley on Friday April 17, 2015 @03:24PM (#9396610)
-n serves a different purpose (the command returns immediately). Even when using that flag, there will be an Emacs icon in the cmd-tab list and the dock after the client is closed.
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Re:Spacemacs – Emacs advanced kit focused on Evil by michaelsbradley on Friday April 17, 2015 @02:00PM (#9396044)
It's not the client that hangs around in the cmd-tab list (and as an icon in the dock) – what's signified is the process for the Emacs daemon.

I agree that it would be nice if it could be configured/made to disappear.

I use terminal-mode emacsclient on my Mac all day everyday, and `C-h k` shows <shift+tab> is interpreted as <backtab>. That's the case for Terminal.app and iTerm2, though I only use the latter. I'm not sure why yours interprets it as M-[.

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