It should be simple enough to implement, but the Emacs client ( /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/emacsclient) seems to have problems locating the server from time to time. Instead, I decided to use the Emacs client to start the server, if it cannot detect a running Emacs. However, I never found this to be useful. To install it, follow the instructions at AFS for macOS. To start the Emacs server, it is possible to ask macOS to launch the Emacs daemon automatically when the user logs in (see here). An OpenAFS-compatible client for Big Sur can be downloaded from Auristor. 2) It cements the iOS-ification of the Mac more than. 1) It’s the first Mac operating system that’s compatible with Apple Silicon. This was when I realized that I should investigate the client/server mode. macOS Big Sur is a solid release for several reasons.

Emacs is right at home on a Mac, which was a big surprise: emacs is (the first) GNU program, very stringent about free software, and Mac is very adamant about being very proprietary to the point of aliasing gcc to clang. will give you a nice boost to smoothness. What I wanted was for the running Emacs to open a new buffer. brew install emacs-mac -with-modules -with-mac-metal -with-big-sur-icon. The problem with the emacs shell command, though, was that if I use it to open a second document, a new instance of Emacs would be launched. The brew install creates a sym link in the applications folder, so I set up an Alfred script to open that application directly (it doesn’t open a terminal window). I used the d12frosted Emacs-plus distribution ( ). However, I eventually decided to switch to the GUI mode because I liked how org-mode documents are rendered in GUI mode. I just got Emacs running on my new Big Sur laptop (with an M1 chip). I used to use emacsnw exclusively, because I thought that managing an addition macOS window was a hassle. Function emacs () alias emacsnw = '/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs -nw'

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