{"id":2063,"date":"2013-08-14T09:36:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T13:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=2063"},"modified":"2013-08-14T13:20:13","modified_gmt":"2013-08-14T17:20:13","slug":"emacs-keybindings-in-os-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=2063","title":{"rendered":"Emacs Keybindings in OS X"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> I think I&#8217;ve mentioned this before but a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/lelf.lu\/posts\/emacs-keybindings-mac-os-x.html\">post<\/a> by Anton Nikishaev reminded me that this is useful information if you fall into the intersection of Emacs and OS X users. OS X has a very configurable keybinding facility that allows you to easily set keybindings that suit your workflow. <\/p>\n<p> If you&#8217;re an Emacs user, you might want to use the same keybindings in the rest of the OS X applications. To do this, download <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hcs.harvard.edu\/~jrus\/site\/KeyBindings\/Emacs%20Opt%20Bindings.dict\">this file<\/a> and install it as ~\/Library\/KeyBindings\/DefaultKeyBinding.dict and experience the joy of Emacs keybindings everywhere. The file is a text file and easily editable if you have your own notion of what the proper Emacs keybindings are. <\/p>\n<p> I&#8217;ve had this installed for a long time and wouldn&#8217;t want to live without it. With it, I don&#8217;t have to learn a bunch of new bindings for each application. It&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Turtles_all_the_way_down\">Emacs all the way down<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p> <b>Update<\/b>: fixed link to the configuration file. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I&#8217;ve mentioned this before but a recent post by Anton Nikishaev reminded me that this is useful information if you fall into the intersection of Emacs and OS X users. OS X has a very configurable keybinding facility &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=2063\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-2063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-emacs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2063"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2065,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063\/revisions\/2065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}