Re: State of the NS Emacs port -- looking for new developers

[Anders Lindgren <andlind@gmail.com>]

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Hi Adrian!

Thanks for shedding light on the early history of the NS port, and for the
work you put in maintaining it.

I will update the README file to include this!

Sincerely,
    Anders Lindgren


On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 11:10 AM, <Adrian.B.Robert@gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> Hi,
>
> First of all, as an OS X user and former maintainer I am very grateful
> for the work you've done.  (The improved NSTRACE is awesome!)  And as
> much as I wish I could step (back) up now myself to help out, I have too
> many side projects as it is.  I hope some others who enjoy working in
> Objective-C / Cocoa (which remains an excellent though polarizing
> development environment) will jump in.
>
> Thanks also for the new intro material, which will be useful.  Just one
> thing, about the HISTORY section -- while not actually inaccurate, it
> leaves out some details of interest.  What about something like the
> following?
>
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>
> HISTORY
>
> The Nextstep (NS) interface of GNU Emacs was originally written in 1994
> for NeXTSTEP systems running Emacs 19 and subsequently ported to
> OpenStep and then Rhapsody, which became Mac OS X.  In 2004 it was
> adapted to GNUstep, a free OpenStep implementation, and in 2008 it was
> merged to the GNU Emacs trunk and released with Emacs 23.  Around the
> same time a separate Mac-only port using the Carbon APIs and descending
> from a 2001 MacOS 8/9 port of Emacs 21 was removed. (It remains
> available externally under the name "mac".)
>
>
> best regards,
> Adrian
>
>
>

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