What is the best way to set up Emacs on macOS Big Sur?

• homebrew-emacs-plus

  68 2,203 8.0 Ruby

  Emacs Plus formulae for the Homebrew package manager

I just got Emacs running on my new Big Sur laptop (with an M1 chip). I used the d12frosted Emacs-plus distribution (https://github.com/d12frosted/homebrew-emacs-plus). The brew install creates a sym link in the applications folder, so I set up an Alfred script to open that application directly (it doesn’t open a terminal window).

• homebrew-emacsmacport

  59 1,647 6.7 Ruby

  Emacs mac port formulae for the Homebrew package manager

Since you're on a Mac, install this version of Emacs. It's the "Mac Port", but don't get too hung-up on which version you're using, you can always swap it later. Personally, I installed it at ~/Applications but you can open the app from anywhere (and tools like Spotlight/Alfred should find it just fine).

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• dotfiles

  7 21 0.0 Emacs Lisp

  Discontinued CLI, Emacs, Hammerspoon (by overvale)

Into your new init file paste my personal starter config. It doesn't do a lot but it does 4 main things:

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