Suppose I search for chrome in spotlight search, and select the top suggestion – Google Chrome, this causes mac os to move focus to a running instance of Google Chrome, if available. Likewise, when I search iterm inside spotlight search, it takes me to a running Iterm instance instead of launching a new one. This is how spotlight search works for all applications I tried.
However, when I search emacs, and choose the Emacs application from the top hits, it always starts a new instance of Emacs even though I have an instance of emacs running on my machine.
How do I make spotlight search bring the running emacs into focus as it does for other applications, instead of launching a new emacs instance?
