Re: Darwin support for lisp/battery.el.

[David Kastrup]

Lute Kamstra <address@hidden> writes:

> David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
>
> The systems that are affected by this change are those whose
> `system-type' is equal to darwin (and that have the "pmset" program
> available).  What changes for the users of those systems is that
> they will be able to use display-battery-mode when they choose to do
> so.  (That mode just didn't do anything for them previously.)
> display-battery-mode is not enabled by default.
>
> I don't use Darwin so I couldn't really test the code myself.
> Samuel Lauber was so kind to do that for me.  I think there are
> quite some people with laptops running OS X and using CVS Emacs.  So
> I guess that the code will get some decent testing when it is
> committed now.

It would appear that the worst thing that could happen is that
display-battery-mode fails to work on platforms on which it did not
work previously.  Personally, I would not regard this as
release-critical as long as you make sure that it really is just
darwin that is affected.

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