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 23:21:59 -0400 Message-ID: References: <4A692E0A.9060108@gnu.org> <633A5994-67EB-4A21-AD99-3359CB5D6D65@Princeton.EDU> <656CA4DB-A331-4A84-A997-A3F744E65801@digg.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1249097030 14315 80.91.229.12 (1 Aug 2009 03:23:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 03:23:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ams@gnu.org, cwulfman@Princeton.EDU, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ian Eure Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 01 05:23:42 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 1MX5C9-0004jD-Nn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 01 Aug 2009 05:23:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50264 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MX5C9-0007hJ-29 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:23:41 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MX5Ab-0006R2-MK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:22:05 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MX5AX-0006P4-9X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:22:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49736 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MX5AW-0006Ok-LB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:22:00 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:38281) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MX5AW-0000HH-Cg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:22:00 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1MX5AV-0008Bp-Pq; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:21:59 -0400 In-reply-to: <656CA4DB-A331-4A84-A997-A3F744E65801@digg.com> (message from Ian Eure on Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:31:34 -0700) 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:113496 Archived-At: 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. If it is normal for apps on MacOS to expose their functionality for access thru OSA, I think it is proper for Emacs to follow. Is this the functionality that some have said is comparable to Dbus? The AppleScript support in the Cocoa port allows one to execute AppleScripts from inside Emacs to control Mac OS or applications running on it. Surely this is something that most apps don't have. So we should delete this from Emacs.