Tag Archives: macOS

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →