Category: Mac

Mac

TurboTax 2005 for Mac sucks

TurboTax on the Mac seems to be a big pile of garbage. First as I was importing my investment income from the Internet, I noticed that it downloaded all the correct amounts from my institution but then added duplicate entries for...

Mac

Emacs OS X xterm delete/C-h nirvana

The whole backspace/delete/C-h thing in Unix is always a pain. Having a backspace or delete key that invokes help is one of the most frustrating things. And not having C-h bound to emacs excellent help is pretty annoying too. And...

EmacsMac

Aquamacs and Mozex

Note: Before messing around with emacsclient, as described below, see the comments for an easier solution. I could not get Mozex to launch Aquamacs. Mozex doesn't seem to deal well with editor program path names with spaces and...

FirefoxMac

Mozex on the Mac

Mozex is a neat little Firefox extension that among other things, lets you edit the contents of textareas with an external editor of your choosing. We use TWiki a lot at work and I hate editing in the little browser textarea so...

GeneralMac

Mapping Alt in OS X X11.app to Emacs Meta

Thanks to a comment at this macosxhints post, I've not got the Alt key mapped to Meta in Emacs. defaults write com.apple.x11 swap_alt_meta -boolean true and then restart X11.app. Voila!...

Mac

Solving Emacs X protocol errors on OS X

Thanks to Eric Mercer, I solved the problem I had in OS X X11 with Emacs where Emacs would launch, but trying to invoke any sort of popup menu made it crash with X protocol error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) on protocol...

GeneralMac

Apple releases Intel Mac mini

Cool... Reuters: Apple rolls out new Mac mini with Intel chip