Hi all, what is a good starting place to install emacs on Mac OS X? I installed brew install emacs-mac but I can't install cider in that case. Any suggestions?

https://emacsformacosx.com/

I've been using the Emacs from brew install emacs and have had no trouble there.

there's a specific emacs version with a patch applied that brings extra features that have been removed or not added to gnu emacs

i believe that most os x users prefer this version

that is the one which have support for ligatures for example, is that right @dpsutton ?

ligatures and sub-pixel scrolling are the two big features that i remember. I believe there are many more and its most osx-y

yup that is the one. personally i don’t care much for the scrolling but firacode is just awesome. you don’t want to miss that

https://github.com/railwaycat/homebrew-emacsmacport

I have done the brew install emacs but then I can't load Cider 😞

did you install cider?

@thomas how did you attempt to load cider?

and can you tell me the output of M-x version

M-x package-install [RET] cider [RET] from the installation instructions.

I also tried to do the M-x package-refresh-contents [RET]

but that doesn't help

what happens when you M-x cider-jack-in?

can you tell us what M-x version returns?

GNU Emacs 25.1.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin16.1.0, Carbon Version 157 AppKit 1504.6) of 2016-11-14

and M-x cider-jack-in from a file in a clojure project?

and I have to do Escape in stead of Alt for M- as well

ok let me try...

what's the word thomas?

[no match]

(sorry got interrupted by pointy haired person)

what does no match mean?

I think it means that cider hasn't been installed...

and that is where I get the first failure.

so sorry... I should have said I can't install cider.

that is a more accurate discription of my problem. 😇

what does it exactly say?

you are able to run M-x cider-jack-in ?

like does that option appear?

it doesn't appear... except got [no match] as Cider isn't installed.

I have to go home now though... catch my train. I'll be online again later tonight and thank you for your help.

Hi guys

how can I bind the Meta key to Cmd, in emacs+iterm?

I have it working normally in emacs gui, but I’d like to keep it for terminal emacs -nw

@mping that’s something I would like to know as well, if there are any iterm+emacs users on osx, I’d like to know more about their setup.

Iterm has a "keys" preference panel that lets you swap modifier keys. I have left option and command swapped and have added 3 key mappings to allow Cmd+space, Cmd+`, and Cmd+Tab fall through to the OS.

@leathekd is that a configuration option in iterm or something else?

Yep, in the "Keys" tab of iTerm's preferences.

I configured some of it, but can’t manage to wrangle my desired behavior

I set both option-space and cmd-space to be ignored

but when I hit option space from within iterm, nothing happens.