Re: ns-do-applescript

[Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>]

chad <yandros@gmail.com> writes:

> From my point of view, this pretty clearly falls into the category of
> native application support on a proprietary OS. It's not enabling
> anything that doesn't already exist, by definition; but it is
> potentially making life easier for Emacs users on that platform. In
> practice, there wasn't a lot of upside when last I looked, so it
> probably doesn't warrant a lot of effort to continue, but there are a
> few platform-standard things that it enables that are useful and
> benefit from calling a library function rather than forking an
> interpreter. Of course, that relies on there being someone willing to
> maintain the glue to those library functions.

From my POV, it is easily replaced by running `osascript' in a
subprocess, and the features provided by the so-called "native
application support" are not available on free operating systems.  It
also comes with various disadvantages, such as quitting being disabled
while the script is running, which isn't the case inside subprocesses.