From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Changes 2009-07-15/16 in branch? Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:21:54 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20090729.153110.135823225.hanche@math.ntnu.no> <20090730.112247.15932272.hanche@math.ntnu.no> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1249096982 14267 80.91.229.12 (1 Aug 2009 03:23:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 03:23:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Harald Hanche-Olsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 01 05:22:55 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 1MX5BN-0004Ym-6x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 01 Aug 2009 05:22:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49800 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MX5BM-0006so-8x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:22:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MX5AW-0006Oh-Gg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:22:00 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MX5AR-0006O6-F1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:21:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49735 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MX5AR-0006O3-AA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:21:55 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:38272) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MX5AR-0000GR-4T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:21:55 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1MX5AQ-000882-Ai; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:21:54 -0400 In-reply-to: <20090730.112247.15932272.hanche@math.ntnu.no> (message from Harald Hanche-Olsen on Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:22:47 -0500 (CDT)) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:113495 Archived-At: Services provided by Emacs are these four: Email selection (i.e., put the selection in the body of a new message) New buffer containing selection Open selected file (the selection had better name a file) Send mail to selected address This seems legitimate. It just lets Emacs respond to other programs in a way that is normally used on MacOs. So this is not a MacOS-specific feature, but rather implementation of a MacOS interface to Emacs. Now apart from Applescript and services (covered in a separate message), applications may respond to other kinds of events. One that Emacs does well is "open file"; the script above actually triggers such an event. Ditto. However, running Applescript programs FROM Emacs is a system-specific feature for MacOS. That is what ought to be deleted.