Configuring org-protocol in AMD build MacOS

This is a post on configuring org-protocol for people using Emacs on MacOS with AMD chips. The documentary only contains configuration for up to MacOs built on Intel chips. I will also include the steps I have taken to figure the problem out with very limited programming and computer background knowledge.

First, load org-protocol.el to the init.el configuration file:

1(server-start)
2(add-to-list 'load-path "~/path/to/org/protocol/")
3(require 'org-protocol)

Note that org-protocol.el comes with the org-mode so it’s not in any package archives. From the repo of org-protocol.el, I know the file is located under .../lisp/org/org-protocol.el so what I did is to navigate into my .emacs.d and trying to figure out where the file is. Another way to find the path is through command line as following:

1find ~/.emacs.d -name 'org-protocol.el'

The terminal will return the file-path and you just need to copy the path up to where the actual org.protocol.el file is located to the 'load-path part.

Then comes to the Mac OS X setup section, the older link doesn’t work, but the newer ones won’t work on MacOS will AMD chip either. This is because Homebrew installs software to path /opt/homebrew/ instead of older /usr/bin path. From the script, from the script provided, it seems the org-protocol.app is trying to reach the emacscleint, so the task comes down to find where the emacscleint in my computer actually locates. Since I have several emacs version installed in my macbook but I am only using the emacs-plus@28, I want to make sure that I am calling the right emacscelint so I run

1brew info emacs-plus@28

to get the potentially correct path the emacscleint might be, I simply navigated into the folder but another way is again using command line with sudo in front to gain permission.

After this step, simply follow the rest of the tutorial here, and everything works just fine.