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Brief justification and lots of links to software and guides,
explicit xbindkeys example.
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WillForan authored and tecosaur committed Feb 9, 2022
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* Usage

Invoke the Emacs Everywhere executable^{†}.
I recommend doing this by binding a shortcut to:
I recommend doing this by [[*Binding a Shortcut][binding a shortcut]] to:
#+begin_src shell
emacsclient --eval "(emacs-everywhere)"
#+end_src
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^{*†*} This requires the Emacs daemon to be running, but that's super easy.
Just call =emacs --daemon= and you're sorted!

* Binding a Shortcut

Emacs-everywhere needs a way to launch when a not-emacs application has focus. The easiest way to do this is to have a global keybinding/keyboard shortcut dedicated to launching (same as above): ~emacsclient --eval "(emacs-everywhere)"~

On linux/bsd, use your desktop environment, windows manager, or a dedicated processes (like sxhkd, xbindkeys). The [[https://help.ubuntu.com/stable/ubuntu-help/keyboard-shortcuts-set.html.en][ubuntu]] and [[https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Keyboard_shortcuts#Customization][archlinux]] guides are informative.

On MacOS, options include [[http://www.hammerspoon.org/][hammerspoon]], [[https://www.alfredapp.com/help/workflows/triggers/hotkey/][alfred]], [[https://apps.apple.com/us/app/thor-launcher/id1120999687?mt=12][thor]], or [[https://github.com/pqrs-org/Karabiner-Elements/issues/134#issuecomment-439658876][karabiner]]. (Untested, see [[https://github.com/tecosaur/emacs-everywhere/issues/1#issuecomment-781329521][the relevant issue]])

** Example

For xbindkeys, =~/.xbindkeysrc= would include the entry
#+begin_src shell
"emacsclient --eval '(emacs-everywhere)'"
Alt + Mod4 + e
#+end_src

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