How do I get my cocoa emacs on Mac OS X to load my .emacs visual customizations for new windows (any document opened after the first)?

"OK I figured out how to do this (start a new emacs server for each new file opened and manage your projects that way) from the terminal, I'm sure it would be trivial to get it working from the finder too but since I'm usually in terminal anyway it works for me.

You just add this to your ~/.profile

function emacs-open() {
/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs $1 &
}

then when you want to open a file in a new project (emacs server) with all ur frame customizations and .emacs loaded correctly, it's just

$ emacs-open index.php

I know this may seem really obvious to some, but as far as i could tell it's not done for you anywhere when u dl the package from http://emacsformacosx.com/ so hopefully this helps somebody"