Re: [Mac-emacs-devel] Re: 'Fatal error (6).Abort' (with fix)

[Steven T. <ste...@ma...>]

Andrew -

If /usr/local/bin/emacs is a shell forward to 
Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs, then I have no idea what the problem 
is.  On my machine (which may be anomalous), emacs behaves exactly as 
intended wrt the -nw flag if you start it from a bundle.   If you start 
it from the command-line without -nw, it also works, except that you 
have to hit return once to get the emacs executable going.  So the only 
thing this patch seems to fix is that you don't have to hit return.  
That, however, is beyond useful.  When 10.2 comes around and the 
multithreaded UI can be used, a call to add_keyboard_wait_descriptor 
would fix the select problem that this patch concerns.   My only 
comments about the patch would be:

1.  MakeMeTheFrontProcess would be nice to have as a lisp function.
2.  mac_do_receive_drag should call MakeMeTheFrontProcess instead of 
duplicating the code.

In any case, I still think my patch is a good idea to prevent a random 
Emacs executable from trying to use Carbon if it is outside a bundle 
(and thus can't connect to the window server).  But if 
/usr/local/bin/emacs is going to be a forward to Emacs.app...  which 
will always be in a bundle, then it's not of much use.

-Steven

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updates on disc.