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I have just installed emacs on my system and am having a problem where it quits when I am opening a new file. Here's how it happens:

After I open emacs I click the "blank page" icon. Next, the file explorer opens. When I try to navigate anywhere in the explorer using the arrow keys emacs instantly closes and Apple gives me an "emacs has quit unexpectedly" message. If I reopen the program and navigate by clicking I am able to open a file with no problem, only the arrow keys cause it to close.

I am running Mac OS 10.15.6 and emacs 26.3. Has anyone else encountered this? I am brand new to this program.

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  • How did you install Emacs? – Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' Jul 29 '20 at 19:40
  • I installed from: www.emacsformacosx.com – codenoob Jul 29 '20 at 19:41
  • If you are able to reproduce the issue without any user configuration, aka emacs -q, then you may wish to see if the issue is present in either the upcoming Emacs 27 and/or bleeding edge Emacs 28 versions. In general, when Emacs crashes, it is helpful to catch it with gdb -- this requires building from source, and launching Emacs under gdb from the src directory of the build repository -- then, you can run a detailed backtrace that can help Alan Third (macOS Emacs port maintainer) and others on the development team look into the issue. – lawlist Jul 29 '20 at 22:03
  • Any crash (and this does sound like an Emacs crash) reflects a bug, and it should be reported. Please use M-x report-emacs-bug, providing a step-by-step recipe to repro it, starting from emacs -Q (no init file). – Drew Jul 29 '20 at 22:14
  • Thanks, I'll look into both of those. Working on reporting it too. – codenoob Jul 29 '20 at 23:49

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