About These Emacs Builds. I build three different release flavors of Emacs: Official releases These should be more stable but are not released very often. Pretests These are much more stable and are meant for vetting the code for last minute bugs before a final release. Nightlies These are bleeding edge builds and may have bugs. In GNU Emacs for OSX, how can I keep the kill ring and OSX clipboard separate? (Such that I essentially have two separate kill rings.) With desired behavior, this would work: 1. ⌘C to copy text fr.
Since the upgrade to macOS Catalina, I’ve had two serious annoyances with Emacs. Here’s a little insight into how I fixed them.
Issue 1: I Couldn’t Access Certain Folders
After the upgrade, Emacs was unable to access special folders, like the Documents folder. This is a ramification of the User Data Protection enhancements that were made in Catalina.
Here’s the gist of why this exists: In a previous version, macOS started displaying user prompts (similar to iOS) to grant application permission for accessing things like contacts, photos, location, etc. These prompts were displayed when using special APIs designated for those purposes.
Alas, there was an easy way to bypass these prompts. Rather than using APIs to, say, access your contacts, you could just read the contact database via the filesystem. Catalina now enforces these permissions at the filesystem APIs, as well. This means that, because it doesn’t even ask for permission, Emacs is simply forbidden from accessing certain files.
Apple did provide an escape hatch: Full Disk Access. You, the user, can provide this privilege to an application, and it is allowed to access all files that your user would otherwise be able to access. It’s pretty easy: Go to the Security section of System Preferences, find Full Disk Access in the list, and then add Emacs:
But…this solution didn’t work. After doing this, I still couldn’t access my documents folder. Solving this is directly related to the second issue that’s been nagging me since the upgrade to Catalina.
Issue 2: Spotlight Can’t Bring Emacs to the Front
I commonly switch between applications on macOS by pressing cmd-space to bring up Spotlight, then the first few letters of the application name, and finally return. It’s often quicker than finding the icon via cmd-tab. Unfortunately, this method stopped working, too.
As it turns out, the binary embedded in Emacs.app is…actually not a binary. Instead, it’s a Ruby script. From the script:
Although this never caused problems on prior versions of macOS, here, it is responsible for both of these issues:
- Full disk access does not apply to Emacs because the permissions were not granted to
/usr/bin/ruby. - Emacs can’t be launched again because it is already running, but the running binary doesn’t actually match the Ruby script. Spotlight gives up.
The Solution
On Catalina, the Ruby script will always choose to launch the bundled binary Emacs-x86_64-10_14. So, if you simply move it in place of the Emacs launcher script, everything starts working as normal. At the Terminal, just run these commands:
And, with that, Emacs should correctly receive its Full Disk Access permission, and Spotlight will correctly bring it to front (n.b., it’s still required to add Emacs to the Full Disk Access section of the security system preferences).
Note that, because we have been performing surgery on the Emacs app, its code signature is no longer valid. The last command above removes the code signature from the Emacs binary. On my machines, I had no issues. If you can’t launch Emacs after running these commands, try following the steps in this document from Apple.
Conclusion
One final caveat: This works for me using homebrew-cask-installed Emacs version 26.3. In future versions of Emacs, it’s possible that the correct binary might be something other than Emacs-x86_64-10_14.
If you’ve been plagued by these problems, I hope this post helped. Mac os vim syntax highlighting.
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Obmoz.com[edit]
I was wondering if that other link on that parody site leads to a safe page, 'spiralviral' because the name sounds kinda odd.. and suggestive.. >.< --Kafeithekeaton 17:25, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
- Sound like it's made for fun! 05:05, 27 June 2018 (UTC)
Transcription[edit]
Anyone willing to take the time to list everything that is actually said on zombo.com on the main page? -- 71.77.15.222
- That would likely be copyright infringement. -- LGagnon 23:50, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
- What would constitute copyright infringement in providing a transcription? Merely curious..
- Quotation right, bro. --94.134.62.247 (talk) 21:19, 21 June 2012 (UTC)
Sister sites[edit]
I remember visiting some other zombo com spinoffs that I assume were visible during zgeneration. It was something like dogod.devo.net (this is not correct btw, just something similar) and it was exactly like zombocom except they said dogoddotdevodotnet. Any info?
Carribean?[edit]
When I think carribean, I think of some Jamaican saying 'Eh mon!' (apologies for the stereotype). I would call it more European (Like Ricardo Montalban talking about Corinthian Leather) or Eastern european (Like the count from sesame street).--Xrblsnggt 16:38, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
- We are not changing the article based on your concern for the lack of a stereotype. -- LGagnon 18:41, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
- That's so like your kind. --Xrblsnggt 18:44, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
- You do understand we have a rule against personal attacks, right? -- LGagnon 01:04, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
- You do realize its a freaking joke, right? -- 204.210.193.197
- It's still a personal attack, even with a poor excuse such as a joke. And I'd advise you to be a bit more civil as well. -- LGagnon 22:57, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
- Relax, it's a joke. Geez. - JNighthawk 18:05, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
- It's still a personal attack, even with a poor excuse such as a joke. And I'd advise you to be a bit more civil as well. -- LGagnon 22:57, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
Personal attack? Sounds like some people need to experience a little thing called the real world. Anyway he sounds spanish to me.
Using 'Your Kind' is pushing the envelope for jeftful jabbing.
Uhhmmm .. African, yes? I'm pretty sure it's African. African. Yes.
Password[edit]
What's with the Password? I mean I've been to zombocom alot and I couldn't find anywhere to type it in. If it is vandalism Why hasn't someone taken it off?.Wikiman232 00:39, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
- I think the password should be removed from the wiki article unless someone knows where it should be entered.. --69.231.169.29 01:07, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
2011 restoration[edit]
Now that the article is back, there may be some useful material from older incarnations that should be merged in as well. I'm thinking of http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Zombo.com&oldid=144043931 . Melchoir (talk) 06:04, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
Music[edit]
Does anyone know the source of the background music? JKeck (talk) 06:34, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
New version, new address, same thing, now HTML5?[edit]
I just found out that the website has a clone supposedly made using HTML5. Here!Now we can all be sure that 'zombocom' is finally going to deliver what's promised! (or is it not?..)Lucky guess - Making the same joke now towards HTML5, as the previous time it was towards Flash.I'm not sure of who made this and if it were the original makers or not. — Preceding unsigned comment added by H9armando (talk • contribs) 12:27, 19 September 2015 (UTC)
I found this interesting stack of lines in the HTML source of the page: Sap hana studio download for windows 64 bit.
Is this notable?[edit]
Why is this on Wikipedia? Richard75 (talk) 12:17, 25 February 2017 (UTC)