From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steven Tamm Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Mac OS X Maintainer Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 12:11:40 -0700 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3D93AB67-0814-11D9-A792-00039390AB82@mac.com> References: <8f56a06e0409151411381c0717@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1095361944 18692 80.91.229.6 (16 Sep 2004 19:12:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 19:12:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 16 21:12:15 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1C81fz-0003KC-00 for ; Thu, 16 Sep 2004 21:12:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C81lf-0004KS-Rx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Sep 2004 15:18:07 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C81lX-0004Jx-CN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Sep 2004 15:17:59 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C81lU-0004JS-MT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Sep 2004 15:17:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C81lU-0004JI-Jx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Sep 2004 15:17:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [17.250.248.87] (helo=smtpout.mac.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1C81fW-00076H-N0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Sep 2004 15:11:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mac.com (smtpin08-en2 [10.13.10.153]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/MantshX 2.0) with ESMTP id i8GJBiGi014500; Thu, 16 Sep 2004 12:11:44 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [10.0.1.201] (c-24-5-11-73.client.comcast.net [24.5.11.73]) (authenticated bits=0) by mac.com (Xserve/smtpin08/MantshX 4.0) with ESMTP id i8GJBhvl016616; Thu, 16 Sep 2004 12:11:43 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <8f56a06e0409151411381c0717@mail.gmail.com> Original-To: Doug Alcorn X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:27172 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:27172 I'm the current "official" maintainer of the Mac Carbon port. At least I'm the one currently listed in the MAINTAINERS file for the MacOS port. What in particular do you feel makes it "not-mac-like?" The difficult thing in the carbon port is to strike a balance between emacs-like features and Mac-like features when they come into conflict. One example I'm currently wrestling with is the font dialog: it is modeless palette on the Mac, but is a modal dialog inside Emacs -Steven On Sep 15, 2004, at 2:11 PM, Doug Alcorn wrote: > Is there an official maintainer or head-honcho for the mac-carbon port > of emacs? While I love having a carbon version of emacs, there are > some things that make it not quite feel mac-like. > > I'd like to help out and make some improvements, but I'm not sure > where to start. Pointers would help. > > -- > (__) Doug Alcorn - Unix/Linux/Web Developing > oo / mailto:lathinet@gmail.com http://www.lathi.net > |_/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Emacs-devel mailing list > Emacs-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel