I suppose that's on Mac, right? it happened to me before (on Mac, never in Linux)

and my guess you don't know how reproduce this, right?

does it have anything to do with ediff?

yes, it’s on Mac and I have no idea how to reproduce haha 😄 I tried so many things like removing packages, changing / removing things from my config

by ediff, if you mean magit stuff, I don’t think so. sometimes it even happens when I leave my laptop be for good few minutes

I come back to see it in that state

I’ve googled a lot and tried disabling the emacs server (not even sure what that does), changed helm to ivy and a few other things I could find online

have you tried running Emacs with -q key ? how did you install Emacs? what is the version?

I'd recommend using emacs-plus brew tap to install Emacs.

I actually installed it through cask. and the version I’m running is 26.1

as I remember the command was simply brew cask install emacs

thank you btw, for trying to help out 🙂

no problem. I've been there. I feel your frustration. I used to have issues such that until I learned how to debug them. a) you need to make sure it's not Emacs build you're using (some people would install --HEAD version) b) need to make sure it's not *your* configuration changes. Remove everything of your customizations and see if it still faulty, even try emacs with -q key c) remove all Spacemacs layers, try very minimalistic setup d) open activity monitor, check what Emacs trying do to when it hangs. Most of the time it's trying to call third-party utility like ag, rg, grep or aspell, e) run M-x describe-mode, check *all* the minor modes, disable those you suspect, try running things without them. For example if you disable page-bereak-lines-mode, Spacemacs's home buffer would be more responsive, because on Mac rendering line separators is laggy

It might work if that alias they mentioned in #cider is available for both versions, otherwise I'm not sure how to approach that

I can take a look, possibly tonight