Emacs 21.4 on Mac OS X

Emacs 21.4 on Mac OS X

[Ulrich Hobelmann]

Hi, about the status of Emacs on the Mac:
  * there seem to be dozens of unofficial Emacs/Mac pages on the web, 
more or less unmaintained, outdated, and Mr Choi, who seems to have 
created the carbon port, has quit
  * the unofficial version floating around on the web is 21.3.something
    it works, but it only has one font, which is why I don't use emacs 
right now
  * I just noticed that 21.4 was recently released.  The GNU project 
page says Mac OS X is a supported platform.  I downloaded it, but 
./configure says it is not supported.  etc/MACHINES only mentions 
YellowDogLinux/PPC, no Mac in there.

What is the official status of Emacs on the web?  What is the most 
current info page that is maintained (is there one?)?  If there is a 
current working Emacs, does anyone know how to get normal fonts working 
and set that in the .emacs file?  (I also found dozens of outdated 
webpages on that topic; most of their hints didn't work for my emacs 
21.3.X)...

Thanks for your help, Ulrich

Re: Emacs 21.4 on Mac OS X

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 05.03.2005 um 07:17 schrieb Ulrich Hobelmann:

> Hi, about the status of Emacs on the Mac:

If you want to compile it yourself, you'll probably have to use a  
snapshot from CVS. DarwinPorts or Fink (in the unstable section) have  
them. If you want more, you can check  
http://savannah.gnu.org/cvs/?group=emacs and: "make bootstrap" is the  
command to build this Emacs. And don't give gcc too much switches for  
the first try. In this software there is a top directory mac with a  
script, make-package, that meanwhile might be able to create an  
installer package (.pkg inside a .dmg). When I tried it a few days ago  
it did not work for me because some minor things were not set, but I  
reported this issue.

If you can live without compilation, you could try this:

- Seiji Zenitani's Carbon build with transparency (version 21.3.50.1,  
CVS 20050201)

	<http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/unix_open_source/ 
carbonemacspackage.html>
	<http://home.att.ne.jp/alpha/z123/emacs-mac-e.html>

This might be useful too, particularly the tweaks, I did not try yet:

http://www.reitter-it-media.de/software/osx_emacs.html
http://www.reitter-it-media.de/software/Emacs-OSX-Tweaks.tgz


There is also this:
------------------------------- Info --------------------------------
List Post: <mailto:macosx-emacs@email.esm.psu.edu>
List Archives: <http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/MacOSX-Emacs-Digests/>

Around last Christmas I published there Elisp files with fontsets for  
the Carbon and the X11 personality of GNU Emacs -- but beware: your  
system might be missing some fonts! To retrieve the lists of knows  
fonts try in both: M-x set-frame-font RET TAB TAB and save the  
*Completions* buffers.


My entry into the diverse personalities is like this:

(cond ((= 21 emacs-major-version)
     (progn
     (cond ((string= "x" window-system)
         (message "Sind in X11")
         (load "~/.emacs_X11")
         ))      ; Ende X11
     (cond ((string= "mac" window-system)
         (message "Sind in Aqua")
         (load "~/.emacs_Carbon")
         ))
     (cond ((string= 'nil window-system)
;     (progn
         (message "Sind im Terminal")
         (load "~/.emacs_nil")
         ));)    ; Ende Terminal
     (cond ((= 2 emacs-minor-version)
         (message "Apple's GNU Emacs")
         (load "~/.emacs_Apple")
         ));Version 21.1.30.3
)));Version 21


Emacs from CVS is 22.0.50. GNU Emacs 21.4 is "only" a release to fix a  
security hole, so most of its code was not coming from CVS ...

--
Mit friedvollen Grüßen

   Pete

"Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?"
                                                    - Tom Stoppard

Re: Emacs 21.4 on Mac OS X

[Stefan Monnier]

> Hi, about the status of Emacs on the Mac:

It's only supported with Emacs-CVS.


        Stefan

Re: Emacs 21.4 on Mac OS X

[Tim McNamara]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> Hi, about the status of Emacs on the Mac:
>
> It's only supported with Emacs-CVS.

Andrew Choi indicated that his patches were supposed to become part of
21.4 but it sounds like that did not in fact happen?

Re: Emacs 21.4 on Mac OS X

[Stefan Monnier]

>>> Hi, about the status of Emacs on the Mac:
>> 
>> It's only supported with Emacs-CVS.

> Andrew Choi indicated that his patches were supposed to become part of
> 21.4 but it sounds like that did not in fact happen?

He meant "the next feature release".  It turned out that 21.4 was not
a feature release but a bug-fix release.

In any case, the canonical Carbon Emacs is the Emacs-CVS code, AFAIK
(originally developed by Andrew Choi and now maintained by other people).


        Stefan