Hey guys, If you are on a Mac, you *should* start using this: https://github.com/railwaycat/emacs-mac-port I've been having some serious issues with the vanilla Cocoa Emacs lately on Mavericks, including a nasty memory leak that would somehow trigger distnoted and put the CPU usage at 100% every hour or so. Besides being quite stable, it has some nice usability improvements made specifically to make Emacs integrate better with OSX. My orgmode experience has been much better since I started using it! Thought I'd share :) Cheers, Marcelo.