From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Preferences support for Carbon Emacs Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 17:39:37 +0900 Organization: Faculty of Science, Chiba University Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1110962999 10265 80.91.229.2 (16 Mar 2005 08:49:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 08:49:59 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 16 09:49:59 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DBUDt-0000gZ-VK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 09:49:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DBUTw-0004dm-Lp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 04:06:24 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DBUMD-00030G-N9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 03:58:25 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DBUMB-0002yD-6P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 03:58:24 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DBUM9-0002qK-S0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 03:58:22 -0500 Original-Received: from [133.82.132.2] (helo=mathmail.math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DBU42-0000Cj-Ss for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 03:39:39 -0500 Original-Received: from church.math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp (church [133.82.132.36]) by mathmail.math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 684CA1A637B for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 17:39:37 +0900 (JST) Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.12.2 (99 Luftballons) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.6 (Marutamachi) APEL/10.6 Emacs/22.0.50 (sparc-sun-solaris2.8) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) 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: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-MailScanner-To: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:34626 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:34626 Mac OS X has a customization mechanism called "preferences". http://developer.apple.com/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/BPRuntimeConfig/Concepts/UserPreferences.html I've just installed some changes that enable Carbon Emacs to get preferences through X Resources functions (like registry on W32). Now users can use preferences in place of X Resources. For example, adding a line Emacs.cursorType: bar to ~/.Xresources in X11 corresponds to the execution of % defaults write org.gnu.Emacs Emacs.cursorType bar in Carbon. One can use boolean or numeric values as well as string values. % defaults write org.gnu.Emacs Emacs.toolBar -bool off % defaults write org.gnu.Emacs Emacs.lineSpacing -int 3 Of course, you can directly edit your own ~/Library/Preferences/org.gnu.Emacs.plist with Property List Editor or your favorite text editor :-) I also added a function that reads arbitrary application preference value and converts it a Lisp object. For example, evaluation of (mac-get-preference "AppleLanguages") results in an array ["ja" "en" "fr" "de" ...] of strings in my environment. Maybe this can be used for setting up the default language environment at startup time. YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu mituharu@math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp