Re: Mac OS-compatible ports

[Dave Abrahams]

on Sat Jan 07 2012, Dimitri Fontaine <dim-AT-tapoueh.org> wrote:

> Christian Lynbech <address@hidden> writes:
>> I use Emacs on OSX everyday too, and I use gnus as my one and only way
>> to read mail, and it works quite well for me (except I am experiencing
>> some issues with w3m after upgrading my laptop to Lion). This is emacs24
>> using the trunk version and upstream gnus.
>
> With Emacs24 and gnus and flyspell, on macosx, Emacs gets slower and
> slower to the point that if I want to edit medium to large size C files
> (more than 6k lines, say) I need to restart Emacs.
>
> I've been told flyspell usage is what makes emacs slower and slower on
> this system but didn't have anytime to spend on that yet.  It would be
> awesome to see the problem fixed though :)
>
> That's the only problem I have here and basically “I live in Emacs”.

Oh, I should also point out that this problem affects the usability of
GDB in Emacs 24.  It is most likely a general problem with process
handling.

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Dave Abrahams
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