How can I run Mac OSX graphical Emacs in daemon mode?

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ACCEPTED ANSWER

Score 15

You've got this handled
Yes, you'll want to use emacsclient. To get a new frame, add the -c option. I have an alias to make it quicker and to tell emacsclient not to wait for emacs server to return:
```
alias em='emacsclient -n'
```
emacsclient -nw
I'm not sure about this. I start Emacs once and always load new files either within emacs or using my em alias.

Update:

Check out this tip documenting how to use Platypus to create an app wrapper around emacsclient. You could then use "Open With..." to launch using your new app wrapper.

ANSWER 2

Score 2

Yes, here is an pretty comprehensive explain about how to do this nicely. I tried several methods to get it working nicely, but no better than what they described here.

https://gist.github.com/304964

Cheers!

ANSWER 3

Score 1

For 4. put this in your .emacs:

(setq ns-pop-up-frames nil)

The solution of creating a Mac .app (with Platypus) does not work because Mac won't open the same application twice.