Getting emacs working on OSX Monterey

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/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)”

Then run the “next steps part”

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brew install --cask emacs

The cmd-space emacs to start the application.

1. Go to System Preferences
2. Security, then unlock to make changes
3. Enable the binary
4. Then go to Privacy
5. Enable Full Disk Access for emacs

There's a launcher script to figure out what version of the emacs binary to start up depending upon the architecture, which confuses OSX. We'll need to get rid of this in order to help OSX figure out what's happening.

In a shell:

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  cd /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS 
  mv Emacs Emacs-Launcher
  cp Emacs-arm64-11_2 Emacs
  cp Emacs-arm64-11_2.pdmp Emacs.pdmp

1. Go to System Preferences
2. Select Modifier Keys
3. Change Caps Lock to be Control
4. Go to Mission Control
5. Unset the C-up and C-down so that emacs gets it.

It's also useful to remap the Command key into Meta in the emacs world, which you can do in your init.el with:

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  (setq mac-option-key-is-meta nil)
  (setq mac-command-key-is-meta t)
  (setq mac-command-modifier 'meta)
  (setq mac-option-modifier nil)

Another handy thing to do is to add fonts from homebrew. This isn't really necessary, but here for reference:

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brew install svn
brew tap homebrew/cask-fonts
brew install font-inconsolata
brew install font-roboto-mono
brew install font-fira-code

This is a nice machine.