Tag Archives: macOS

Adding C-DEL To The macOS Keybindings

Posted on 2023-05-14 by jcs

One of the little known but great features of macOS is their support of Emacs keybindings. Although most people don’t know it, this support comes in two parts. The first is that some of the common Emacs bindings such as … Continue reading →

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Captee

Posted on 2023-05-05 by jcs

Charles Choi has an application, Captee, in the Mac App store that’s a generalization of my jcs-get-link function. My function inserts an Org link to the currently active page in Safari. I use it constantly when writing blog posts. It … Continue reading →

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Screenshots and Recording

Posted on 2023-04-26 by jcs

Another day, another Álvaro Ramírez post. It’s hard to keep up. His latest post is macOS specific but very useful for those using a Mac who want to take a screen shot or capture a video. The Mac, of course, … Continue reading →

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macOS As A Unix Workstation

Posted on 2022-11-24 by jcs

Torstein K. Johansen has an interesting post on configuring a Mac to be comfortable for a Linux user. Johansen is a self described “die hard Linux user” but recently had to work on a Mac. Macs are Unix machines but … Continue reading →

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Emacs Keystrokes in macOS

Posted on 2022-10-15 by jcs

This is your periodic reminder that you can get most of the Emacs editing keystrokes in any macOS application. I usually publish this reminder when I see a tweet or post from someone who has discovered that the Emacs cursor … Continue reading →

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Increasing the Max Open Files in Emacs on macOS

Posted on 2022-09-04 by jcs

From time to time I see complaints about Emacs having too many open files on macOS. This is because Apple has set the default number of open files for a process at 1024. Sadly, you can’t fix this by upping … Continue reading →

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A Global Hyper Key

Posted on 2020-12-30 by jcs

There’s an interesting article over at Prodtyping that illustrates how to implement a global Hyper key on the Mac. By “global” I mean it works everywhere, not just Emacs. The idea is to use Hyper as a global shortcut key. … Continue reading →

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Sudo by Touch ID on Macs

Posted on 2020-11-19 by jcs

This post is just a quickie for those of you using a Mac with Touch ID. My latest MacBook Pro has Touch ID and I was surprised at how much I like and use it. It’s especially handy for 1Passowrd … Continue reading →

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Two Clicks Needed for Menus on macOS

Posted on 2020-09-02 by jcs

This is another one of those posts that are of interest only to folks using Emacs on macOS. For some time, the Emacs menus haven’t been working right for me on macOS. In previous versions of Emacs/macOS, there would be … Continue reading →

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How To Wrap The MacBook Power Cord

Posted on 2019-12-09 by jcs

While learning how to pour organge juice, I stumbled on a video that shows you the right way to wrap your MacBook power cord into a small neat package that fits easily in your backpack: Here’s another video that shows … Continue reading →

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