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Questions tagged [osx]

for questions about graphical and terminal versions of Emacs on macOS operating system. Please specify which package of Emacs for macOS you are using!

macOS consists of a Mach/BSD-based kernel, operating system interfaces primarily based on FreeBSD, and additional frameworks (written in C, C++ and Objective-C) providing user interface and application-level services.

There are several packages of Emacs for macOS with slightly different feature sets. When asking about Emacs on macOS, please specify which package you are using (the URL where you downloaded it is often good enough).

There are several others; see also What is the difference between Aquamacs and other Mac versions of Emacs?

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How to Restore File System Access in macOS Catalina

I updated to macOS Catalina which requires the user through pop-ups to allow any app trying to access the file system for the first time. No such pop-up is appearing for Emacs. Running the script shared…
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Emacs 28.2 error in macOS Ventura: `image-type: Invalid image type ‘svg’`

since upgrading to macOS Ventura, my Emacs 28.2 installation throws the error message image-type: Invalid image type ‘svg’ at the startup of Emacs. M-: (image-type-available-p 'svg) RET returns t. Might someone know why this error occurs and how to…
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Compile emacs with xwidget under OSX?

How do I compile Emacs with xwidget under OSX? When I tried to run ./configure --prefix=$HOME/emacs-xwidgets --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 --with-xwidgets I get an error configure: error: xwidgets requested but gtk3 not used.. But it looks like I have an…
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Finder of MacOS Catalina cannot open a file with Emacs

After upgrading to macOS Catalina, Emacs (v26.3 from GNU Emacs for Mac OS X) works very strange. Without Emacs already running, Finder can open a file with Emacs as usual. But once Emacs.app is running, it cannot any longer. For example, double…
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How to bring up the OS X `accented-characters` dialogue in Emacs on OS X?

Normally on OS X if you hold down a key, e.g. the a you get a menu after a little while that allows you to input an accented character. It looks like this: Is it possible to activate this input dialogue from Emacs? Doing it the same way as on other…
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Emacs unable to load imagemagick?

I'm on a Mac and am having problems with Emacs and libmagick. Right now, Emacs exits and prints: Library not loaded: /usr/local/opt/imagemagick/lib/libMagickWand-6.Q16.2.dylib Referenced from:…
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file-notify support on OSX

Is Notifications on File Changes supported on Mac OS X? I can't seem to find any documentation about how to do this anywhere.
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Getting operation not permitted when trying to open projects or use integrated terminal in emacs-doom

While using MacOS Catalina (which is suspect is the problem) I recently decided to try emacs, as a recommendation from a friend. I finally get it working and generally figure it out and now when trying to open a project or even trying to ls my…
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emacs remove macOS Tags when resave the file

I found emacs cannot save the macOS tag when the file changed and save from buffer I create a empty file with macOS tag and use emacs to open it and write something use C-x C-s to save and the tags in Finder disappeared How could I have a method…
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Command C-M- not working on mac os high sierra

I have emacs 25.2 installed on my Mac. Yesterday I updated the OS to High Sierra and the command C-M- to highlight s-expressions is not working any more. Can you help me? Thanks
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Can emacs run inside chrome?

Can emacs be run in chrome? Like vim does at https://rhysd.github.io/vim.wasm/
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Run only one instance of Emacs on macOS

When I run Emacs on macOS, it runs a new instance of the app. Is there a way that I can only ever run one instance? If I double-click on the Emacs app icon (for example), and it's already running, it would just bring the existing instance to the…
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A build of GUI Emacs for OS X that can display emoji?

Is there a build of GUI Emacs for Mac that can display emoji? I tried this and AquaEmacs but neither of them could display it.
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controlling Emacs from AppleScript

I want to write some AppleScript to raise individual Emacs frames, with a given name. Also to send keyboard events to those frames, and to resize and position them. I think that Emacs is "unscriptable," but I am not sure if there is a way to do this…
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Do I need glib (OSX)?

One of the options when installing emacs in OSX (through homebrew) is support for glib. It's not included by default. What does it buy me to install? Any downsides? Thanks!
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