Category: emacs
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emacs vs macOS keyboard shortcuts
https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/mac-help/mchlp2262/mac In emacs I certainly use “ctrl-SPACE” a lot in order to mark a location in a a buffer. On macOS that is by default already taken. But you can change it anyway. Read the article above! Where it says “In the list on the left, select a category”, select “Input Sources”! Here we are.
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GNU Emacs 28.1 released
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2022-04/msg00001.html https://emacsformacosx.com – and you can find 28.1 ready-made for macOSX on “Emacs For Mac OS X”
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Emacs and Microsoft Windows
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Microsoft-Windows.html https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/efaq-w32.html C:\Program Files\Emacs\x86_64\share\emacs\VER\README.W32 – read it! for serious! C:\Program Files\Emacs\x86_64\bin\ – where the utilities are located https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/ https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/emacs/ I use to download and install emacs-VER-x86_64.zip , it contains “a large number of optional dependencies for Emacs” – maybe you want to install that into c:\opt\emacs-VER\. emacs-VER-installer.exe – a Windows installer – installs into C:\Program…
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Git for Windows – comes with a nice minimal GNU shell environment
https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/wiki/FAQ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/mingw-w64#MSYS2 – GfW is based on MSYS2; MSYS2 provides a Unix environment to Windows https://www.msys2.org – … https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/download.html#windows – MSYS2 users can install GNU Emacs using a pacman command line http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/ – I wonder whether I can get this GNU Emacs for Windows to cooperate with the MSYS2 provided by GfW https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Microsoft-Windows.html I guess…
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my 2021 Windows working environment
I would actually rather prefer Windows Terminal over ConEmu, because I assume it will be the new standard in the Windows world – but then in my professional Windows environment Group Policies do not allow “apps” – and then … ConEmu is quite nice. Windows Terminal (CAVEAT: did no achieve it): ConEmu – a Windows…
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disable colours in Emacs
https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/AngryFruitSalad http://catb.org/jargon/html/A/angry-fruit-salad.html https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/angry_fruit_salad http://www.askbjoernhansen.com/2002/09/05/unix_tip_disable_colors_in_ema.html https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/108257/how-do-i-stop-emacs-from-colouring-the-text-of-the-file-i-am-editing#108272 To disable colouring in your current buffer, toggle font-lock-mode off with this command (my ad-hoc solution): M-x font-lock-mode To disable font-lock-mode “permanently” – see above! You may still find coloured remainders – but it’s not as bad any longer. Continued: One day I suddenly noticed what should have been obvious…
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emacs’s tramp causes scp to complain about missing option “-T”
This problem started with tramp 2.5.1-pre (on macOS Mojave (10.14.6)). /usr/bin/scp: illegal option — T If I set tramp-scp-strict-file-name-checking to “” (as suggested in tramp-sh.el), I bypass the problem.
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osx / macOS : GNU Emacs: How to Restore File System Access in macOS Catalina
https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/53026/how-to-restore-file-system-access-in-macos-catalina https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/53904/why-cant-i-list-the-contents-of-desktop-on-macos-using-dired https://github.com/caldwell/build-emacs/issues/84#issuecomment-545754668 I actually added Emacs (and /usr/bin/ruby – /usr/ is a a hidden folder, so tell the Finder to allow access to the hidden folder /usr/ temporarily like this: Shift-Cmd-“.”) here: System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy > Full Disk Access
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I am now proudly running Emacs-27.1-universal.dmg – from “Emacs For Mac OS X”
https://emacsformacosx.com/builds https://emacsformacosx.com/donors