[ESS] [OT] emacs on OS X (was Re: ESS 14.09 released)

[Grant Rettke]

Mine is installed with

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│ brew install gcc
│ brew tap homebrew/science
│ brew install R
│ brew install emacs-mac --icon-official --with-gnutls
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on

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│ archey
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│                  ###
│                ####                   User: gcr
│                ###                    Hostname: orion
│        #######    #######             Distro: OS X 10.9.3
│      ######################           Kernel: Darwin
│     #####################             Uptime: 11:24
│     ####################              Shell: /usr/local/bin/bash
│     ####################              Terminal: dumb
│     #####################             Packages: 78
│      ######################           CPU: Intel Core i7-4960HQ CPU @ 2.60GHz
│       ####################            Memory: 16 GB
│         ################              Disk: 20%
│          ####     #####
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without issue.

On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 8:24 AM, Andreas Leha
<andreas.leha at med.uni-goettingen.de> wrote:
> Hi Stephen/all,
>
> Sorry for making this thread off-topic.  But I need to say this
> somewhere.  Please just ignore.
>
> I recently had to switch to OS X as well.  I see a lot of problems with
> emacs here, unfortunately.
> I also solved the distnoted problem by upgrading to newest emacs.
>
> But most annoyingly, I get emacs to start only every third time or so.
> All the other times the frame (or OS X window) does not appear and the
> Emacs process constantly uses 50% of one CPU.  My only 'solution' is to do
> kill -9 <PID> and try again until I succeed.
>
> I can not extend my Laptop's uptime over a week without getting an
> unstable system which will crash eventually.  Combined with my problems to
> start emacs, that makes it a pain to work on OS X.
>
> I do not even know how to debug this.
>
> If you are still reading: Thanks for listening.  I am feeling much
> better now ;-)
>
> Andreas
>
> Stephen Eglen <S.J.Eglen at damtp.cam.ac.uk> writes:
>>> I'm working to have a reliable version for OS X that includes the fix
>>> for the distnoted problem on Mavericks. Stay tuned.
>>
>> the distnoted problem was a major pain and something I didn't see for
>> ages.  If you notice your battery draining quickly, and see "distnoted"
>> running, quit your emacs, and in a few seconds distnoted should calm
>> down.  I'm running on 24.4.50 to get around this pain.
>>
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