Fixing error -54 with Emacs on macOS
On my older Intel MacBook Pro I ran into permission errors when trying to run Emacs, as installed via emacs-plus via Homebrew. This is the workaround.
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Switching back to Emacs causes the warning "recentf mode: Non-character input-event". · Issue #5554 · syl20bnr/spacemacs
While I don't use Spacemacs myself (this isn't actually a Spacemacs issue), I'm getting this a lot on my iMac and Macbook; especially when I've woken them from sleep.
osx - How to Restore File System Access in macOS Catalina - Emacs Stack Exchange
Solution to the problem of Emacs being denied access to the likes of ~/Documents on macOS Catalina.
Problems with Emacs on macOS
A Twitter thread about issues with Emacs on macOS and how to work around or plain solve them.
Honestly, as someone who's 100% Emacs/macOS, I'd not really noticed any of these -- but I always run Emacs as a fullscreen application in its own desktop space.