Visual Studio Code’s “Code Helper” is currently spawning so many copies of `rg` that I can’t even invoke `ps aux | grep rg` to count how many copies it has spawned.
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@freakboy3742 @phildini sigh. okay. no, I still need to give the annoying answer:
brew tap d12frosted/emacs-plus
brew install emacs-plus
@freakboy3742 @phildini it's annoying because it's a custom homebrew recipe which has to be built from source sometimes and generally is a bit weird because it's not Just A Normal App. You probably will need to make an Alias in /Applications or do something to make your preferred launcher find it properly. Whereas emacsformacosx is a cask, actually distributed as a binary, and generally works normal. (Except, as I just explained, it doesn't work right now.)
@glyph @freakboy3742 @phildini you actually _copy_ it into `/Applications`, but … that’s printed out when you install it, and it’s rock solid as long as you follow those instructions. You get terminal emacsclient, plus emacs-that-plays-nice.
@freakboy3742 how the!?! what were you trying to do before this?
@phildini I haven’t done anything consciously. I *do* have a lot of VSCode windows open… but that’s not a recent change - I have a lot of projects on the go at once. I don’t even know how to go about diagnosing this, other than “take off, nuke it all from orbit, and hope it doesn’t happen again” (except that it seems to have happened twice in the last week…)
My guess is that it’s trying to index the contents of `build` folders… but that’s a SWAG.
@freakboy3742 @phildini man I did not expect 2026 to be the year I fully embraced feeling good about using Emacs forever but Events keep Transpiring
@glyph @freakboy3742 I desperately wish I could make myself get used to terminal-based IDEs, but I just don't seem to have it
