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| e0f712ba | 1 | Emacs for Mac OS 8/9 and Mac OS X |
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| e0f712ba | 3 | Copyright (c) 2001, 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. |
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| 5 | Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim | |
| 6 | copies of this document as received, in any medium, provided that | |
| 7 | the copyright notice and permission notice are preserved, and that | |
| 8 | the distributor grants the recipient permission for further | |
| 9 | redistribution as permitted by this notice. | |
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| 11 | Permission is granted to distribute modified versions of this | |
| 12 | document, or of portions of it, under the above conditions, | |
| 13 | provided also that they carry prominent notices stating who last | |
| 14 | changed them. | |
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16 | This directory contains the files needed to build Emacs on the Mac OS |
| 17 | 8/9 and Mac OS X. Many of the major features of the Unix version are | |
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18 | supported: multiple frames, colors, scroll bars, menu bars, use of the |
| 19 | mouse, fontsets, international characters, input methods, and coding | |
| 20 | systems. | |
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| 22 | Mac OS specific support includes document drag-and-drop in the Finder, | |
| 23 | transfer of text to and from other applications via the clipboard, and | |
| 24 | sending AppleScript commands to other applications from Emacs. | |
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26 | The following are not supported on Mac OS 8/9 : unexec (dump-emacs), |
| 27 | asynchronous subprocesses (start-process), and networking | |
| 28 | (open-network-stream). These features work fine on Mac OS X. | |
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30 | There is basic support for synchronous subprocesses (call-process) on |
| 31 | Mac OS 8/9 although Unix commands that are used will need to be | |
| 32 | ported. | |
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34 | Metrowerks CodeWarrior Pro 6 or MPW-GM (August 2001) can be used to |
| 35 | build Emacs on the Mac OS 8/9. On Mac OS X, Emacs can be built using | |
| 36 | the Developer Tools. See the INSTALL file in this directory for | |
| 37 | instructions on building Emacs. | |
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| e0f712ba | 39 | Binary distributions will be available in |
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| 649b3fbc | 41 | ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mac/emacs/ |
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43 | Read the Mac OS section of the on-line help to find out about how to |
| 44 | use Emacs on the Mac. | |
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| 46 | A number of things do not work yet: | |
| 47 | ||
| 48 | + On Mac OS X, environment variables are not set up correctly when | |
| 49 | Emacs is started from the Finder. | |
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| 51 | + Emacs does not respond correctly to C-g when it is not reading | |
| 52 | input. | |
| 53 | ||
| 54 | + No image support yet. | |
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| 56 | + There is no mouse-2 and mouse-3 emulation yet. | |
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| 58 | If your Mac is connected to the Internet, report bugs by typing `M-x | |
| 59 | report-emacs-bug' or by choosing the entry `Send Bug Report...' in | |
| 60 | the `Help' menu. This will send the bug report to the address | |
| 61 | emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org. | |
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62 | |
| 63 | Andrew. | |
| e0f712ba | 64 | <akochoi@mac.com> |