Re: Emacs and GNUstep

[Robert Slover]

I have the same misgivings about Emacs+GTK. What a disaster. I don't use many 
GUI features in Emacs but it is kind of nice to have mousable menus for 
less-often-used features and those without key bindings. Both the older XEmacs 
and Emacs distributions on our Solaris systems are quite usable and fast - but 
our RHEL systems are faster than our Solaris boxes in almost every aspect - 
until I launch Emacs and have to contend with it - slow enough to launch that I 
might as well be launching Eclipse, and menus that are so slow to paint that 
I've often made the mouse motion to navigate to where I know the menu selection 
will appear - only to find that GTK got the events indicating my mouse moved 
right of the top-level menu before the destination menu was ever mapped, so 
thinks I've moused away and just removes the top level menu - so I have to 
start over and slow down on the retry. I've gotten so tired of this that I now 
most often start Emacs on RHEL with the '-nw' option.

--Robert

> On Mar 9, 2014, at 5:16, Riccardo Mottola <riccardo.mottola@libero.it> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> how is the actual state of Emacs on GNUstep? Is there any semi-working 
> distribution? We used to have two different forks, which both worked on 
> GNUstep and and on old Mac 10.2/10.3... one replaced the other (Aquamacs? I 
> don't remember). BUt I remember testing!!
> 
> Then things got into the main Emacs branch and newer Mac and got required and 
> I never got GNUstep working...
> 
> I think it is time to get the editor I use anyway for objective-c with our 
> nice interface and menus! The GTK3 version is just unbearable ;)
> 
> Riccardo
> 
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