Tag Archives: macOS

ICanHazShortcut 2.0

Posted on 2026-05-11 by jcs

I’ve been using ICanHazShortcut for years. I originally started using it to have an easy way to switch to Emacs from anywhere in my system. Eventually, I added Safari and HomeKit to the list of apps I can invoke with … Continue reading →

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Alfred Snippets

Posted on 2026-04-14 by jcs

Today while I was going through my feed, I saw this this post from macosxguru over at Bicycle For Your Mind. It’s about his system for using snippets on his system. The TL;DR is that he has settled on Typinator … Continue reading →

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Exporting From Org Agenda To macOS Calendar

Posted on 2026-02-13 by jcs

Aimé Bertrand has an nice post on how he exports scheduled items in his org agenda to his macOS calendar. He mostly lives in Emacs and Org mode but, like, me also likes to have his appointments and other scheduled … Continue reading →

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Apple Text Navigation and Emacs

Posted on 2024-06-13 by jcs

Charles Choi is grateful—really grateful—to Apple for a longstanding UI feature. As many, many others have discovered, macOS apps recognize some basic Emacs navigation commands. Choi tells us something that I didn’t know. Apparently the NextStep programmers added the feature … Continue reading →

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De-Googling: My Secret Weapons

Posted on 2024-06-01 by jcs

Neeraj Adhikari has a nice post on one of my favorite crusades: banishing Google from my life. I’ve been pretty successful at this because of two thing: Emacs and macOS. Most longtime readers know that the Irreal empire mostly runs … Continue reading →

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OSX Dictionary Interface

Posted on 2024-02-22 by jcs

Here’s something that may be of interest to those of you falling in the intersection of Emacs users and Mac heads. It’s an Emacs interface to the macOS dictionary app. What it does is give you access to the macOS … Continue reading →

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Building Emacs On macOS

Posted on 2024-02-06 by jcs

I often see posts on reddit and similar venues from people asking for help in building Emacs on Macs. On the one hand, it could hardly be simpler: you just download the code and call make. On the other hand, … Continue reading →

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Vimari

Posted on 2023-10-29 by jcs

Back in August, I wrote about my quest to minimize mouse usage as much as possible. That’s easy in Emacs where my mouse usage is essentially zero. It’s a bit harder when navigating between apps and performing various system duties … Continue reading →

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Open Xcode From Emacs At The Same Line

Posted on 2023-10-27 by jcs

Álvaro Ramírez has a nice post on opening a file in the macOS Xcode editor from Emacs. There’s nothing unusual about that, of course, but Ramírez’s wrinkle is that he wants Xcode to open at the same line the Emacs … Continue reading →

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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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