emacs

Building Emacs 27.1 on macOS Big Sur

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It’s been a while since I posted a Emacs build walk-through, one version of macOS has come and gone and a new major version of Emacs has arrived, let’s get t...

Updated Emacs Open with Line Numbers

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Not long ago I shared a Bash function that takes filenames in the form of filename.rb:NNN, where NNN is a line number, opens the file in Emacs, and jumps to ...

Opening Files with Line Numbers in Emacs

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Long ago I shared my EmacsClient setup. The short of it was that I always have Emacs running and set $EDITOR in such a way that things like git commit open a...

Building Emacs 25 on macOS High Sierra

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macOS High Sierra is out and it’s time once again to build Emacs. Nothing has really changed since my 2017 Sierra update, but let’s put it all together… Bef...

Building Emacs 25 on macOS Sierra 2017 Update

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A quick update to Building Emacs on macOS Sierra. I recently had to rebuild Emacs due to brew updating the version of libjpeg. My walk-through almost works, ...

Building Emacs on OS X El Capitan

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Last week I wrote about my issue with Emacs’ visible-bell on OS X El Capitan. I figured it was about the most esoteric thing I’ve written, but it may have go...

Emacs Visible Bell Work-Around on OS X El Capitan

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After I upgraded to OS X El Capitan‎, I started having random display issues with my build from source version of Emacs. After a while I realized that it was...

Building a Portable Emacs for Mac

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A visitor, Rakkesh, stopped by with a question about Building Emacs 24.4 From Source on the Mac. He had an issue that when he built Emacs on one machine (a M...

Working with EmacsClient

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Previously, I showed how I set $EDITOR. On my laptop, I actually do something different to take advantage of my favorite Emacs feature EmacsClient. EmacsClie...

Building Emacs.App From Source on OS X Lion

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As always, I like building Emacs for my Mac from source. It lets me live on the cutting edge and have tigher control of the version I’m running. If building ...