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

[Andreas Leha]

Hi Gregory,

Thanks.  Good to know.  I'll give Vincent Goulet’s Emacs another try.  I
compiled myself to get rid of the distnoted problem.

Since I guess there are quite a few emacs/OSX users and I do not see
others reporting anything similar, this is probably somehow a problem on
my side...

Best,
Andreas


"Gregory R. Warnes" <greg at warnes.net> writes:
> Hi Andreas,
>
> I’m happily using OSX 10.9.4 with Vincent Goulet’s Emacs distribution on a 2013 MacBook Pro.
>
> I haven’t seen the stability issues or the problem you’re experiencing.  
>
> -Greg
>
>
>
> On Sep 15, 2014, at 9:24 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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