From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ian Eure Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Changes 2009-07-15/16 in branch? Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:31:34 -0700 Message-ID: <656CA4DB-A331-4A84-A997-A3F744E65801@digg.com> References: <4A692E0A.9060108@gnu.org> <633A5994-67EB-4A21-AD99-3359CB5D6D65@Princeton.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v935.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1248813126 3017 80.91.229.12 (28 Jul 2009 20:32:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:32:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, cwulfman@Princeton.EDU To: ams@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 28 22:31:59 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MVtKz-0007ZR-VN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Jul 2009 22:31:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56845 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MVtKz-0001nX-Bl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:31:53 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MVtKs-0001m1-6F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:31:46 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MVtKn-0001ky-P7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:31:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=42800 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MVtKn-0001kv-HE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:31:41 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.digg.com ([64.191.203.36]:42849) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MVtKj-0007ld-RY; Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:31:38 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail.digg.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50BEAA85045; Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:31:36 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at d242.digg.internal Original-Received: from mail.digg.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.digg.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id GEPgwMsQNhMV; Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:31:36 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [10.2.16.50] (diggstage01.digg.com [64.191.203.34]) by mail.digg.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E28AAA8503F; Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:31:35 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.935.3) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:113300 Archived-At: On Jul 28, 2009, at 11:39 AM, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > However, Applescript is a potentially much more important issue. I > have not received an answer to my questions about Applescript, so I > cannot start to evaluate the issue. > > I did some digging, it seems to be a non-free scripting engine for OS > X that makes it possible for users to talk to other programs, and > create macros for automatic things. I could not find any free version > of it for GNU, nor any support for it in GNUStep; only OSX uses it. > More specifically, it's a combination of the Open Scripting Architecture and the AppleScript programming language. OSA is a mechanism which allows applications to expose functionality to other programs in order to automate tasks. Access to this functionality is provided by way of OSA Scripting Components, which is a way to plug new programming languages into OSA. There are components available for free languages, such as Ruby, JavaScript, and Python. AppleScript is a natural-language (i.e. English-like) programming language which is the default language to use with OSA scripting. The AppleScript support in the Cocoa port allows one to execute AppleScripts from inside Emacs to control Mac OS or applications running on it. - Ian