Emacs focus

[Sebastian]

Hello -

 

I would love to have a workflow to open/focus certain apps with a global shortcut (eg cmd+1 for firefox, cms+2 for slack, cmd+3 for emacs etc). I've setup a basic workflow and it works like a charm apart from the Emacs app (https://emacsformacosx.com). It seems that the launch command is ignored. Is there anything I can do to fix it?

[Andrew]

@Sebastian Are there certain scenarios where it works, for example does it work when Emacs is fully quit?

 

What full path do you have to Emacs, and which version of macOS are you using?

[Sebastian]

Hey,

 

> Are there certain scenarios where it works, for example does it work when Emacs is fully quit?

 

Good catch, it does actually open the Emacs for the first time but it cannot focus it.

 

> What full path do you have to Emacs, and which version of macOS are you using?

 

Standard `/Applications/Emacs.app`, Catalina 10.15.1, Alfred 4.0.6 (build 1124).

[Andrew]

This looks to be related to Catalina and Emacs specifically:

 

https://www.alfredforum.com/topic/13807-upgrade-macos-catalina-and-alfred-4-alfred-couldnt-switch-the-window-to-emacs/

 

Outside of Alfred, what behaviour do you get with Emacs using alternative methods of re-launch (e.g. double clicking in finder, and from Spotlight).

 

Also, are there any other apps which exhibit this behaviour?

 

Cheers,

Andrew

[Sebastian]

> Outside of Alfred, what behaviour do you get with Emacs using alternative methods of re-launch (e.g. double clicking in finder, and from Spotlight).

 

None of this work. Only cmd+tab and clicking on the dock helps. 

 

Is there any alternative way to setup Alfred? Could you give me some technical details that I could post to emacs for osx issues page so they can look at it as well?

[Sebastian]

Anyway I worked around the issue by using different Emacs distribution (https://github.com/d12frosted/homebrew-emacs-plus).