Re: ANN: Emacs on GNUstep / OS X 8.0-pre3

[John Davidorff Pell]

First, thanks for putting in the effort to make this happen. I love 
emacs and am greatful that it has been made usable in a more 
user-friendly windowing environment.

Second, have your changes been applicable to Xemacs as well? I would 
imagine not very much because of the wquite different event system and 
gui system,, though I would imagine that  Xemacs gui system changes 
would be minor because it has a fantastic gui system already. Anyway, I 
like Xemacs better because it is not encumbered by RMS's politics and 
can incorporate better technology faster and make critical design 
changes without RMS's blessing. I was hhoping that someone (like you) 
migh put in the work, or port your existing work, to Xemacs as well. 
Thanx!

JP


On 27 Jan 2005, at 08:22, Adrian Robert wrote:



> Hi all,
>
> I've released the third "pre" version of Emacs for GNUstep / OS X at:
>
> http://kamares.ucsd.edu/~arobert/GNUstep/emacs.html
>
>
> Basically now 100% usable. Release highlights:
>
> - bold and italic faces now supported (using font w/these variants)
>
> - cut/paste and drag/drop support improved; drag/drop fully supported
>
> - open/save files using GUI panels
>
> - cursor and mouse highlighting rendering problems fixed
>
> - other stability and rendering speed improvements
>
>
> Should work out-of-box on OS X Panther and Jaguar.  Puma should also
> work -- if massaging is still needed please let me know.
>
> Status respecting backends on GNUstep is unchanged: works on Xlib,
> has rendering anomalies under Art.  Specifically, menus are rendered
> blank when they change (this may be Emacs's fault), and the letter
> 'f' is rendered in proportional spacing (from NSString
> -drawAtPoint:withAttributes:) in all fonts tried (in some cases the
> character after the 'f' must be 'i' or another 'f').
>
> It is still necessary to use GNUstep from CVS (2005/01/25 or later)
> and in addition apply a small patch to GUI.  This patch contains:
>
> - Let NSApplication -run after -stop: work.
> - Let NSScroller +scrollerWidth override work as on Cocoa.
>
> Both of these add an instance variable and are therefore in
> "pending" status.
>
> This Emacs is fully functional should be stable for day-to-day use
> on GNUstep and OS X, however problems may occur; this is still a
> developer release.  *Please* let me know if you encounter a crash so
> it can be investigated.
>
> Release schedule: there will be one more "pre-" release fixing all
> outstanding problems, then a hopefully short "rc-" series focusing
> on internationalization support (LEIM, fontsets) and a simplified
> installation process. (It's a bit ugly on both platforms currently.)
>
> Some good news: the earlier contributors to this Emacs port have all
> been contacted and (with a couple of exceptions) have agreed to
> contribute their code to the FSF.  A small amount of code for which
> this is not true has been removed and rewritten from scratch.  This
> clears the way for making Emacs for *Step an "official" GNU Emacs,
> and also for bringing it into the main tree should an update to
> Emacs-21 be carried out.
>
> Thanks again go to those of you providing feedback and help on Emacs
> and/or answering my GNUstep questions.
>
>
> -Adrian
>
>
>
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