Tag Archives: OSX

Storing Secrets

Posted on 2017-05-04 by jcs

In my never ending crusade to move as many functions as possible into Emacs, I’ve lately been dealing with functions that require a user name and password. For example, part of the mbsync configuration that downloads my emails requires a … Continue reading →

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PSA: SSH Suddenly Asks for Passwords in OS X

Posted on 2016-09-23 by jcs

Background If you’re an OS X user who uses SSH keys to SSH to remote machines and have just updated to Sierra you may have noticed that SSH has suddenly started asking for a password. My situation is that I’ve … Continue reading →

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Emacs Modifier Keys on OS X

Posted on 2016-06-09 by jcs

Yesterday, I wrote about using a prefix keymap to help deal with the shortage of available key sequences. That’s a good solution for what Xah Lee calls take-a-break commands. For frequently used commands it’s more efficient to use the 【Hyper】 … Continue reading →

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