Re: [Mac-emacs-users] What's new in 21.1 (in the mac version) since 20.6?

[Andrew C. <ak...@cs...>]

Hi Leif,

> >The Mac OS *Classic* build of Emacs 21 still supports calls to
> >AppleScripts.  So it is possible to modify RMAIL to send and
> >receive E-mail using Eudora as was done in 20.6.  But I haven't
> >tried this and the code for E-mail has been left out of the
> >distribution.  I do not plan to work further on that.
> 
> So if I downloaded 20.6 again I could find the code etc there?

It should be at the end of the file lisp/term/mac-win.el.

> XEmacs for mac has ispell working I think. But I don't know how
> different XEmacs is.

Parmet's old port of Emacs 18.59 on which the XEmacs 19.14 port was
based contains a number of ports of Unix command-line programs and
mechanism to use them.  Are you sure it is ispell and not spell?

> My question was mostly related to how Eudora would treat a
> utf-encoded message from Emacs. So it is perhaps a Eudora
> question... Eudora in its present editions does not have
> UTF-encoding at all. Does Eudora receive a 100% prepared message
> from Emacs and just send it away? Or does it encode it in any way
> also? Not an important question... Just curious... Eg. when you used
> 20.6 for email and e.g. send chinese e-mail had that anyting to do
> with what plug-ins that was installed in Eudora?

I don't remember trying to send Chinese E-mail messages from it, and
whether that succeeded.  In 20.6, Eudora basically replaces the
function of lib-src/movemail.c.  Therefore, my guess is that Eudora
receives the message in already encoded form (and appropriate mail
header).

BTW, I was able to compile ispell on Mac OS X with the following
steps.

1. Install GNU textutils 2.0

   ./configure
   make
   make install

   (`make check' will fail for `pr').

2. Get and untar ispell-3.2.06

3. cp local.h.samp local.h

4. Add a line `#define TERMLIB ""' to the end of local.h

5. Set the environment variable TMPDIR to an existing directory

   For example /tmp exists on my machine and I'm using bash, so

     export TMPDIR=/tmp

   will do it.

6. Run `make' and `make install', the latter as root

So if you need to build a Norwegian dictionary, download it and set
the macro LANGUAGE in local.h accordingly.

Now I have ispell and better yet flyspell in Emacs 21 on Mac OS X :-).

Andrew.