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Setting up Emacs daemon on OS X

Tired of waiting for emacs to start on OS X? This step by step guide will teach you how to install the latest version of emacs and configure it to start in the background (daemon mode) and use emacsclient as your main editor.

Install Homebrew

First you'll need to install the [Homebrew package manager][brew] if yo haven't already. It is amazing.

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/* Keybindings for emacs emulation. Compiled by Jacob Rus.
*
* To use: copy this file to ~/Library/KeyBindings/
* after that any Cocoa applications you launch will inherit these bindings
*
* This is a pretty good set, especially considering that many emacs bindings
* such as C-o, C-a, C-e, C-k, C-y, C-v, C-f, C-b, C-p, C-n, C-t, and
* perhaps a few more, are already built into the system.
*