#Beutiful emacs for mac pdf
#Beutiful emacs for mac install

I haven’t decided if I want to fully invest in a literate config file so this is a nice way to experiment. I use tangle/detangle to produce emacs lisp files from the org file.

This is the same configuration but written in an Org file with lots of documentation.

This is the same config file but running on spacemacs master instead of the develop branch.

#Beutiful emacs for mac install

I want to understand all of the packages I am using and install only the ones I need, thus avoiding a lot of bloat. This is a new config that I am setting up using just spacemacs-base instead of full spacemacs.I am currently running six Emacs configurations,

default page width behavior ( setq-default pdf-view-display-size 'fit-page ) ChemacsĬhemacs is an Emacs profile switcher that makes it easy to run multiple Emacs configs side by side. I think I read somewhere that it might interfere with tiling window managers as well and we can’t be having that, so let’s install it without, I personally don’t like having a title bar on my beautiful editor so I choose not to install it. In particular, it provides a lot of native GUI support. This is an excellent blog post detailing how The Emacs Mac Port (which I installed using Homebrew from this repo) greatly improves Emacs’ functionality with MacOS. Many GitHub issues later and The Emacs Mac Port came to the rescue.

#Beutiful emacs for mac pdf

So I set out on a second mission to get my myself a high res pdf viewing experience within Emacs. Unfortunately, both of these installs don’t support retina pdf quality in PDFView (pdf-tools). I use the pdf-tools package through the pdf-tools spacemacs layer for viewing all my pdfs writing LaTeX docs (using org-mode and/or auctex), reading books, reading papers (using org-ref) etc. I stumbled across Emacs-plus which solved the issue but left me with another…

This really started to bug me so I invested a hefty chunk of time (in classic Emacs style) to find a solution. emacs from homebrew) are not recognised by the yabai tiling window manager and don’t tile properly. I wanted to write the post because I have been on a roller coaster getting an Emacs install that provides all of the functionality that I want (maybe even need!). This is a short post detailing how I installed Emacs and configured an environment for maintaining multiple configurations (on my MacBook Pro).