<p>In the time honored tradition of using one’s blog as an Internet-enabled notepad, here’s a quick not on how I build GNU Emacs on macOS using homebrew and the emacs-mac port cask:</p>

<p>I’ve been using a 2009 cheesegrater Mac Pro for quite a while now. I bought it used quite a while ago - around 2013 if I remember correctly - and it’s been serving as my main photo/video/general programming workhorse, although the latter tasks have been taken over mostly by a Linux machine housed in the infamous <a href="/2021/09/21/wrapping-up-nzxt-h1-saga/">NZXT H1 case</a>. It’s been upgraded a lot during its life - now has the latest 6 core Xeon these machines support…

<p>I have a few more loose ends to tidy up before switching to the static version of the blog. One of the important tasks was to make sure I had a spell checker available. Back in the dim and distant past I had set up <code>flyspell-mode</code> with <a href="https://www.lonecpluspluscoder.com/2015/03/03/setting-up-emacs-spell-checking-on-os-x/">hunspell</a>, but I wanted to check if there was something better available these days. Enter <a href="https://abiword.github.io/enchant/">enchant</a>,…