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| e0f712ba | 1 | Emacs for Mac OS 8/9 and Mac OS X |
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| b65d8176 | 3 | Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 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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39 | Read the Mac OS section of the on-line help to find out about how to |
| 40 | use Emacs on the Mac. | |
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| 42 | A number of things do not work yet: | |
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44 | + Emacs does not respond correctly to C-g under certain circumstances. |
| 45 | Sending the Emacs process a SIGINT externally will cause it | |
| 46 | to interrupt. This is due to the architecture of OSX's | |
| 47 | Window Manager. | |
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49 | + Support for certain image types (such as XPM) is not as extensive as |
| 50 | on other plaforms. | |
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52 | + Incorporate Apple's wrappers to be able to create a universal |
| 53 | binary that unexecs on first run for the given architecture. | |
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55 | If your Mac is connected to the Internet, report bugs by typing `M-x |
| 56 | report-emacs-bug' or by choosing the entry `Send Bug Report...' in | |
| 57 | the `Help' menu. This will send the bug report to the address | |
| 58 | emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org. | |
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60 | Steven |
| 61 | <steven.tamm@mac.com> |