Here are some tips and tricks on setting up Emacs.app on Mac OS X. Theseare based on my personal experience of using Emacs.app for the past 10 yearsor so; there may be better ways, but these work for me.
Text-only applications on OS X. I feel there should be an article on wikipedia somewhere covering the non-GUI applications such as the Python shell, Emacs and Vim releases bundled with OS X: I added a brief section on them here but it was (probably justifiably) removed as irrelevant by another editor.
Running Emacs.app from the command line
- There are several differences between Mac OS X’s Terminal application and the xterm and xterm-like applications common to Unix systems running X Windows: You cannot customize the characteristics of the Terminal with command-line switches such as - fn, - fg, and - bg.
- Jan 31, 2002 Anyone know how to get emacs to pop up in a separate window? Right now I have XDarwin going and can use xterms and all that jazz. What Im curious about, though, is how come on linux, when I type 'emacs' in an xterm window, emacs pops up in a new window, but in OS X, it only opens up in the.
- Use /usr/bin/emacs: the problem with it is that it is not X aware, and thus must be run in a terminal window, and that is not good enough. (Running it in xterm, however, will be better than running in Mac OS X Terminal.).
Call this script 'emacs' and put it somewhere in your PATH (~/bin or /usr/local/bin):
Using emacsclient
- Make sure the latest emacsclient binary is in your path:
- Call this script 'ec' and put it somewhere in your PATH (~/bin or /usr/local/bin):
- Add 'alias emacs=ec' or 'alias emacsclient=ec' to your '.bashrc'. Or just use ec directly.
Using Emacs as the mergetool for git
Add add this snippet to your .gitconfig:
If you want to use emacsclient, add this snippet instead:
![Emacs no x Emacs no x](/uploads/1/2/6/6/126605649/500595611.png)
Changing the Modifier Keys
Easy
The easiest way is to use the Customize interface: 'M-x customize-group RET ns RET'.
Hard
If you don't like Customize and want to do it manually, the following variables control the modifier keys:
- ns-alternate-modifier
- ns-command-modifier
- ns-control-modifier
- ns-function-modifier
- ns-option-modifier (just a different name for ns-alternate-modifier)
- ns-right-alternate-modifier
- ns-right-command-modifier
- ns-right-control-modifier
- ns-right-option-modifier
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Each variable can be set to 'control, 'meta, 'alt, 'super, or 'hyper.
In addition ns-alternative-modifier (and ns-option-modifier) can be setto 'none, which lets it get interpreted by the OS so it can be used toinput special characters.
The ns-right-* variables are set to 'left by default which makes them thesame as their left counterpart.
Verifying the Binary Integrity
Mac Install Emacs
This site serves the binaries via SSL and while the binaries are not GPG signed, the application is code signed. You can verify the signature like this:
Or, if you haven't installed emacs yet, but have mounted the disk image:
Emacs Mac Port
Look for the following in the output:
Mac Os X 10.7 Download Free
'Galvanix' is my consulting partnership and is what I registered my Apple developer account under. If you see that, the binary is intact.
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hi,
i am a student of Computer Science, i just bought a mackbook, for the os, i think it is ok to use because it is like the linux or unix os some parts, but there are some problems with me, first, when i use terminal to open emacs, no gui version, and i also did not find the gui version emacs, is not there any gui version emacs in Mac? Second, i normally use vim, but also there gives me an error, Can not open display. someone told me that the X window is different from linux and unix, but why gvim command still exists? then i find one which seems to be gvim, but the font size is soooooooooooo small, i try to use command set guifont to change, without use.
could u give me some hints to deal with it? thank you very much
i am a student of Computer Science, i just bought a mackbook, for the os, i think it is ok to use because it is like the linux or unix os some parts, but there are some problems with me, first, when i use terminal to open emacs, no gui version, and i also did not find the gui version emacs, is not there any gui version emacs in Mac? Second, i normally use vim, but also there gives me an error, Can not open display. someone told me that the X window is different from linux and unix, but why gvim command still exists? then i find one which seems to be gvim, but the font size is soooooooooooo small, i try to use command set guifont to change, without use.
could u give me some hints to deal with it? thank you very much