#Install emacs on mac how to
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#Install emacs on mac full

Create Slave - when new folders are added on server, create them locally.

Without this option, moving a message to another folder will reset the date of the message.

CopyArrivalDate - makes sure the date of the arrival stays the same when you move messages around.

Expunge None - don't destroy messages neither locally, nor remotely.

Alternatively, you can select only certain folders to sync. # This section a 'channel', a connection between remote and localįew details about the channel options worth mentioning: # The SubFolders option allows to represent all # IMAP subfolders as local subfolders # This section describes the local storage # For better security you should use GPG

#Install emacs on mac how to

User For simplicity, this is how to read the password from another file.

#Install emacs on mac install

Install mbsync with homebrew (the package is called isync, but the binary is called mbsync):

mu4e - Emacs package that comes with mu.

It doesn't deal with the server directly, instead, it just read your local file system.

mu - a command line email client which works with Maildir storage.

In can sync both ways, so if I just move a file (which corresponds to a single message) from folder to folder, and then run mbsync again, this change will propagate to the server.

#Install emacs on mac full

Even if you're not interested in doing email in Emacs, having a full local copy of your mailbox may be a good idea.

mbsync - a command-line utility which syncs IMAP server with a local directory in Maildir format.

This doesn't require any special configuration. The setup consists of the following parts: I dislike elaborate, finicky setups and slowdowns. This means I don't want to setup something in Emacs that will only work there (like custom tagging which doesn't propagate to the server). I want to be able to use whatever third party email client or continue using Fastmail's web interface without any caveats. You can use my referral code to get 10% off. I moved from Gmail to Fastmail almost two years ago and I highly recommend the service. It's a solid service with normal IMAP (unlike Gmail with their weird, non-standard implementation which makes it very hard to use anything other than their web interface). Honestly, I don't think I'll stick with it, but as an experiment, I want to try and see whether it makes sense to use Emacs as an email client. Once you embrace Emacs, at some point you gonna want to do email in it. (fboundp 'native-compile-async) should return t.Fastmail setup with Emacs, mu4e and mbsync on macOS January 30, 2020 If you don't see any (comp) warnings on first startup you might just want to check that native compilation is working. The new native-compilation feature will churn through your startup Elisp and probably spew a ton of warnings, but eventually you'll notice that Emacs feels much zippier. If all goes well you should be able to start Emacs and (emacs-version) will report 28.1.

#Install emacs on mac update

The above steps will update your /Applications/Emacs.app in place, so if you had emacsclient in a different subdirectory (as I did) you may want to replace any symbolic links to the newly build version at /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/bin/emacsclient. prefix=/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/ResourcesĬonfirm your emacsclient is linked to the right place

#Install emacs on mac Patch

These steps also apply the (optional) multi-tty patch that I've written about before. Sudo rm -rf /Library/Developer/CommandLineToolsĪgain, something was wedged in the subsequent build process until I took this step, as recommeded in this GitHub thread. opt/homebrew/opt/texinfo/bin Install/re-install Xcode command-line tools Add makeinfo to pathĪdd this to your shell path (necessary so that the makeinfo provided by texinfo is seen before the older macOS-provided version).

Also texinfo provides an updated makeinfo which is now no longer optional in the Emacs build process. I'm not sure why it was necessary to reinstall gcc (maybe an architecture issue?), but it seemed to help with a build error in a subsequent step. Overall the process seems much smoother than the pre-release build experience but as always YMMV. The Emacs Mac Port has been updated for Emacs 28.1 and here are the steps I used to build and install it on my M1 MacBook Air. This is an update of sorts to my previous Emacs build recipe and late-night Emacs-on-M1 twitter thread. Upgrading to Emacs 28.1 on Apple Silicon (M1) Macs