Have the option to run emacs as --daemon in brew services

[MuhmdRaouf]

Feature request description

Hello, I have installed Emacs and enabled brew services as well,
then realized that in /opt/homebrew/Cellar/emacs-plus@29/29.4/[email protected] it work as
--fg-daemon
can we add a flag while build to give us the ability to make it run as --daemon/--bg-daemon, as after I have change it and restart the service emacs loading became much faster (using doom emacs)

credit to the idea came from this comment in this gist
https://gist.github.com/redinger/1394910?permalink_comment_id=5001180#gistcomment-5001180

[d12frosted]

Hey @MuhmdRaouf,

I am not using Emacs as daemon/service. But I am completely open to the idea of making this work out of the box. But someone who cares needs to figure things out and prepare a PR 😸

A few random thoughts:

1. Would be nice to avoid using any install flags. Installation should support two ways of starting Emacs without reinstalling it.
2. Brew provides command/capabilities for running services, maybe it can be used.
3. Would be nice to provide Emacs Client.app out of the box or make Emacs.app act as a client when service is running.

So please, if someone cares about daemon mode - chime in, figure things out and send a PR :)

[d12frosted]

@MuhmdRaouf can you explain me why you need bg specifically? fg works and to my understanding, it is required if we want to stop the server whenever we stop the service.

In any case, I hope client users would find this useful - #783

[MuhmdRaouf]

@d12frosted tbh I am new to Emacs and still learning, so what I wanted might work without the need for fg/bg

I wanted to run Emacs as a server (that's why I said bg) and connect to it via client, which will help me to avoid accidental close, or just close emacs client for now, but I wanna get back to the same point I left, and faster loading after the first time.

let me know if what make sense and what I asked for is reasonable

[d12frosted]

So it always worked :)

Just run brew services start emacs-plus@30 and then you can use emacsclient. Just make sure you are not using TCP (i.e. server-use-tcp is nil and EMACS_SERVER_FILE env var is not set).