Mac OS X Command Line Options Bug Fix

Mac OS X Command Line Options Bug Fix

[Andrew Choi]

Hello Everyone,

I've checked in the following patch to the CVS that allows Emacs to be
started correctly as a GUI application from the terminal on Mac OS X.
Therefore command line options can now be passed to Emacs.  The OS X
loader still requires a pathname to the executable in the bundle be
typed to the shell for Emacs to correctly find its resources.

Now that this problem is solved, I will soon be changing
src/makefile.in to install the executable only at one place (within
the application bundle in its usual place, which is placed in say
/Applications/ or some other location specified by the user).  The
`executable' in $prefix/bin/ will really be just something like the
following script:

  #!/bin/sh
  /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs $*

When invoked from the command line, it will start a GUI or terminal
version depending on whether the -nw switch is used.

Of course one can still double-click on the application bundle in the
Finder to start Emacs.

I invite everyone to test this patch.

Andrew.
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2002-08-10  Andrew Choi  <akochoi@shaw.ca>

        * mac.c (sys_select) [MAC_OSX]: New function.

        * macterm.c (MakeMeTheFrontProcess): New function.
        (mac_initialize): Call MakeMeTheFrontProcess.

        * s/darwin.h: Define select to sys_select.

Re: Mac OS X Command Line Options Bug Fix

[Andreas Schwab]

Andrew Choi <akochoi@shaw.ca> writes:

|>   #!/bin/sh
|>   /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs $*

Please use "$@" (including the quotes) instead of $* to get quoting right.

Andreas.

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Re: Mac OS X Command Line Options Bug Fix

[Andrew Choi]

> Andrew Choi <akochoi@shaw.ca> writes:
> 
> |>   #!/bin/sh
> |>   /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs $*
> 
> Please use "$@" (including the quotes) instead of $* to get quoting right.
> 
> Andreas.

Hi Andreas,

Would you consider contributing the necessary changes to makefile.in
for building and installation Emacs on Mac OS X?

Andrew.

Re: Mac OS X Command Line Options Bug Fix

[Andreas Schwab]

Andrew Choi <akochoi@shaw.ca> writes:

|> > Andrew Choi <akochoi@shaw.ca> writes:
|> > 
|> > |>   #!/bin/sh
|> > |>   /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs $*
|> > 
|> > Please use "$@" (including the quotes) instead of $* to get quoting right.
|> > 
|> > Andreas.
|> 
|> Hi Andreas,
|> 
|> Would you consider contributing the necessary changes to makefile.in
|> for building and installation Emacs on Mac OS X?

Not sure which makefile.in you mean.  I cannot find anything related to
this issue.

Andreas.

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