CLI App Relaunch

`ed app relaunch`

Quits both Edith processes and starts the app again, which is what a new permission grant needs before it takes effect.

ed app relaunch [--json]

Name	Type / values	Default	What it does
`--json`	flag	off	Emit JSON on stdout.

--json shape:

{
  "path": "/Applications/Edith.app",
  "relaunched": true
}

Examples:

ed app relaunch
ed app relaunch --json

Without --json it prints relaunched Edith, and only once the quit and the launch have both happened. While it works it paints two transient spinner lines on stderr, waiting for Edith to quit and then starting Edith; they are skipped with --json and whenever stderr is not a terminal, so stdout stays one document. This is the Permissions pane's relaunch button as a command, with a longer reach: the button restarts the menu bar helper it lives in, while ed takes both processes down. macOS hands a process its TCC answers when it starts, so a grant you have just given is invisible until the app runs again.

It needs no running process, but it does need to find the app, which it checks before it quits anything. When neither the bundle this binary sits inside nor /Applications/Edith.app exists, it exits 4 with Edith is not installed where ed can find it, hint it looks in /Applications and alongside this binary.

The order is: post the quit request, then terminate every process carrying either bundle id, wait up to 8 seconds for them to go, force quit whatever is still there and give that 3 seconds more, and only then launch the bundle and wait for it to come up. With Edith already closed the quit step finishes at once. The launch asks for a fresh instance and does not activate it, so Edith comes back without taking focus.

Either half can fail the command, and neither failure is silent. If anything is still alive after the force quit it exits 1 with Edith did not quit, so it was not relaunched, hinting that you quit it from the menu bar and run the command again, and nothing is launched. A launch that throws exits 1 with could not start Edith: and the reason, hinting at opening the bundle from Finder.

Both processes come back: the helper is terminated along with the main window, and the main app starts it again as it launches, so a grant that belongs to the helper bundle rather than the main one is picked up by a relaunch too.