<p>In a previous <a href="https://www.lonecpluspluscoder.com/2019/04/08/unwelcome-surprise-homebrew-emacs-has-no-gui-after-os-x-mojave-update/">post</a> I mentioned that I upgraded my homebrew install of Emacs after Emacs 26.2 was released, and noticed that I had lost its GUI functionality. That’s a pretty serious restriction for me as I usually end up with multiple frames across my desktop. I did end up installing the homebrew <a…

<p>I finally got around to upgrading my OS X installation from Mojave to High Sierra - my OS update schedule is usually based on the old pilot wisdom of “don’t fly the A model of anything”. As part of the upgrade, I ended up reinstalling all homebrew packages including Emacs to make sure I was all up to date. That proved to be a big mistake as I suddenly had a GUI-less Emacs. Of course I found the post on <a href="https://irreal.org/blog/?p=7506">Irreal</a> about the Emacs…

<p><em><strong>Update 2019-05-07</strong>: The java8 cask is affected by recent licensing changes by Oracle. There’s a <a href="https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask-versions/issues/7253">discussion over on github about this</a>. I’m leaving the post up partially for historic context, but the java8 cask is no longer available, at least at the time of writing.</em></p>

<p><em><strong>Update II - 2019-05-07</strong>: It looks like due to the recent licensing changes, the Java 8 JDK that brew used is not directly accessible anymore and likely behind some kind of paywall. The installation method described below will still work as it uses the non-versioned java cask, which installs the latest version of OpenJDK.</em></p>

<p>I’ve recently switched to using homebrew as my source for Emacs on OS X  after seeing <a href="http://struct.tumblr.com/post/46754394733/emacs-24-use-homebrew-instead-of-emacsformacosx">this blog post by Philip Ingram</a>.</p>