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Building Emacs 27.1 on macOS Big Sur

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It’s been a while since I posted a Emacs build walk-through, one version of macOS has come and gone and a new major version of Emacs has arrived, let’s get t...

Not Stupid SSH Tricks: Automatic ssh-add

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If you password protect your SSH keys (and you should) and you don’t store those passwords in your macOS keychain or Linux equivalent (slightly paranoid, but...

Updated Emacs Open with Line Numbers

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Not long ago I shared a Bash function that takes filenames in the form of filename.rb:NNN, where NNN is a line number, opens the file in Emacs, and jumps to ...

Opening Files with Line Numbers in Emacs

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Long ago I shared my EmacsClient setup. The short of it was that I always have Emacs running and set $EDITOR in such a way that things like git commit open a...

Building Emacs 25 on macOS High Sierra

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macOS High Sierra is out and it’s time once again to build Emacs. Nothing has really changed since my 2017 Sierra update, but let’s put it all together… Bef...

Building Emacs 25 on macOS Sierra 2017 Update

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A quick update to Building Emacs on macOS Sierra. I recently had to rebuild Emacs due to brew updating the version of libjpeg. My walk-through almost works, ...