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 previo
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