From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: CHENG Gao Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Changes 2009-07-15/16 in branch? Date: Sun, 02 Aug 2009 15:06:07 +0800 Organization: cyberhut.org Message-ID: References: <20090729.153110.135823225.hanche@math.ntnu.no> <20090730.112247.15932272.hanche@math.ntnu.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1249199124 22055 80.91.229.12 (2 Aug 2009 07:45:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2009 07:45:24 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 02 09:45:16 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 1MXVko-0007Qg-3f for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Aug 2009 09:45:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36371 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MXVkn-0002Mf-Kz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Aug 2009 03:45:13 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MXVkk-0002MU-3Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Aug 2009 03:45:10 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MXVke-0002J6-Tq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Aug 2009 03:45:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=59340 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MXVke-0002J3-Ov for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Aug 2009 03:45:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:51615) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MXVke-0002m9-82 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Aug 2009 03:45:04 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MXVkd-0001ce-Fc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Aug 2009 03:45:03 -0400 Original-Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1MXVkc-0003Fr-Vq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Aug 2009 07:45:03 +0000 Original-Received: from 58.217.140.5 ([58.217.140.5]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 02 Aug 2009 07:45:02 +0000 Original-Received: from chenggao by 58.217.140.5 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 02 Aug 2009 07:45:02 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 58.217.140.5 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Z+fCwpZgRfribbrwmlO3WT9rH4M= X-Detected-Operating-System: by mx20.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:113540 Archived-At: *On Sun, 02 Aug 2009 00:43:55 -0400 * Also sprach Richard Stallman : > As I know, people have talked about replacing Applescript with > Javascript for fairly lone time. And there is a working implementation > called JSTalk > (http://gusmueller.com/blog/archives/2009/03/introducing_jstalk__an_alternative_to_applescript.html). > > Can you explain what it means to "replace Applescript with Javascript"? > Do you mean changing MacOS to get rid of Applescript entirely? > Or making Emacs use Javascript on GNU-like systems the same way it > uses Applescript on MacOS? It means you can use Javascript instead of Applescript to write scripts to communicate between applications on MacOS.I can't say Apple'll dump Applescript and replace it with Javascript, but users can use Javascript to do what Applescript can do. -- Numquam minus solus quam cum solus