Because the return value of `pmset' on Mac OS X Mavericks changed, If you evaluate (display-battery-mode 1), the following error occurs. `wrong-type-argument number-or-marker-p N/A'. I made a patch for this issue. Thanks for reading. -- Masashi Fujimoto --- battery.el 2013-01-02 05:37:17.000000000 +0900 +++ mavericks-battery.el 2013-10-23 12:11:13.000000000 +0900 @@ -543,7 +543,7 @@ The following %-sequences are provided: (with-temp-buffer (ignore-errors (call-process "pmset" nil t nil "-g" "ps")) (goto-char (point-min)) - (when (re-search-forward "Currentl?y drawing from '\\(AC\\|Battery\\) Power'" nil t) + (when (re-search-forward "\\(Currentl?y\\|Now\\) drawing from '\\(AC\\|Battery\\) Power'" nil t) (setq power-source (match-string 1)) (when (re-search-forward "^ -InternalBattery-0[ \t]+" nil t) (when (looking-at "\\([0-9]\\{1,3\\}\\)%")