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Recommended Software

Price Comparison

Emacs on macOS

Window Management

Program Developer Year of latest release Latest version License Price
Amethyst ianyh 2020 0.15.4 MIT License Free
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Rectangle Ryan Hanson 2020 0.42 MIT License Free

Illustration & Image Editing

Program Developer Year of latest release Latest version License Price
Krita Krita Foundation, KDE Community 2021 4.4.2 GPLv3 Free
GIMP GIMP Development Team 2020 2.10.22 GPLv3 Free

Utilities

Program Category Developer Year of latest release Latest version License Price
MacsFanControl Fan Utility CrystalIDEA 2020 1.5.8.1 Freeware, Commercial Free ($14.95 for Pro version)
Keyboard Maestro Automation Stairways Software Pty Ltd. 2020 9 Trialware $25
Amphetamine Power Management William Gustafson 2020 5.0 Freeware Free
BetterTouchTool Input Customization Folivora.AI GMBH 2020 3.502 Trialware $8.50
smcFanControl Fan Utility eidac 2016 2.6 Freeware Free
The Unarchiver Archive Decompressor MacPaw, Inc. 2020 4.2.4 Freeware Free

There are many Mac models to choose from, and the charts below will provide prices of base models for various Macs in production. The prices listed below will be in US dollars and do not include sales tax.

MacBooks

Model Storage Processor Graphics RAM Price
2020 MacBook Air 256 GB Apple M1 7-core M1 GPU 8 GB $999
2020 MacBook Air 512 GB Apple M1 8-core M1 GPU 8 GB $1,249
2020 MacBook Pro 13" 256 GB Apple M1 8-core M1 GPU 8 GB $1,299
2020 MacBook Pro 13" 512 GB Apple M1 8-core M1 GPU 8 GB $1,499
2019 MacBook Pro 16" 512 GB Intel i7-9750H AMD Radeon Pro 5300M 16 GB $2,399
2019 MacBook Pro 16" 1 TB Intel i9-9880H AMD Radeon Pro 5500M 16 GB $2,799

Desktop Macs

Besides the iMac, these models do not come with a monitor. A popular choice is the LG UltraFine 5K monitor, priced at $1,299 and available on Apple's website. The iMac and Mac Pro are bundled with a mouse and keyboard, whereas the Mac Mini is not.

Model Storage Processor Graphics RAM Price
2020 Mac Mini 256 GB Apple M1 8-core M1 GPU 8 GB $699
2017 iMac 21.5" 256 GB Intel i5-7360U Intel Iris Plus 640 8 GB $1,099
2020 iMac 27" 256 GB Intel i9-9900K AMD Radeon Pro 5300 8 GB $1,799
2017 iMac Pro 27" 1 TB Intel Xeon W-2150B AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56 32 GB $4,999
2019 Mac Pro 256 GB Intel Xeon W-3223 AMD Radeon Pro 580X 32 GB $5,999
2019 Mac Pro (Rack) 256 GB Intel Xeon W-3223 AMD Radeon Pro 580X 32 GB $6,499

Mac Accessories

Mice and Keyboards
Model Name Color Price
Magic Mouse 2 Silver $79
Magic Mouse 2 Space Gray $99
Magic Keyboard Silver $99
Magic Keyboard (w/ Number Pad) Silver $129
Magic Keyboard (w/ Number Pad) Space Gray $149

GNU Emacs is a powerful, free and highly customizable editor from the GNU project. Old versions of GNU Emacs were bundled in macOS up until version 10.14. This article will demonstrate how to install Emacs. In Catalina (10.15) and newer versions, you may run into some common problems, and this article will demonstrate how to fix them.

Installation

If you do not have a package manager, then you can download a .dmg installer from the GNU Emacs for Mac OS X website.

MacPorts

Open your terminal and run

port install emacs-app

The difference between the emacs and emacs-app ports is that the latter is designed for Aqua support.

Homebrew

Emacs is installed as a cask on Homebrew via

brew install --cask emacs
Building from source

Refer to the official GNU Emacs webpage.

Common Issues on macOS 10.15+

Gatekeeper

You need to give Emacs.app full disk access for it to properly function when opening from the Dock. To do this, open [System Preferences] > [Security & Privacy] > [Full Disk-Access] then add the program in there. If you installed Emacs using Homebrew, you will also have to give full disk access to ruby, located in /usr/bin/ruby.

Wrong PATH when launching from Dock

The exec-path-from-shell package automatically fixes this issue. If you are using straight.el as your package manager, then you simply append the following to your init.el file.

(use-package exec-path-from-shell
 :config (exec-path-from-shell-initialize))
Missing manpages in M-x man

On the latest versions of Xcode, the macOS SDK supplies man2 and man3. However, these manpages are not stored in /usr/share/man, but in /Library/Developer. Since man.el uses the output of man -k to populate its list, you need to refresh your whatis database. To do this, run the following commands on your terminal.

sudo bash
export MANPATH=`manpath`
/usr/libexec/makewhatis

You may get some errors about /usr/share/man being a read-only filesystem, but you can simply ignore them. After this is done, man.el should be able to find sections 2 and 3 of your manpages.

See also

GNU Emacs Manual

EmacsWiki

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