Re: [Mac-emacs-users] Mac OSX patches

[Piet v. O. <pi...@cs...>]

>>>>> Andrew Choi <ak...@sh...> (AC) writes:

>> I would like to try the current CVS emacs on Mac OSX. Especially since it
>> has many updates concerning character encodings (Mac-Roman, ISO-8859-15
>> etc).
>> However the patch that Andrew supplied is not applicable to the CVS
>> version. Especially since they contain diffs for the configure files etc. 
>> Are there diffs that only apply to the sources, i.e. a minimal set of
>> patches that could be merged in the CVS sources?

AC> Hi Piet,

AC> I'm currently working on that.  There have been many changes since
AC> version 21.1, so a few problems show up after the patches are applied
AC> to the current code in the CVS.

AC> Once I fix these problems, I'll try to merge the changes into the CVS
AC> so the latest version that runs on Mac OS X will be generally
AC> available.  Unfortunately I can only work on this maybe a day or two
AC> per week now.

Thanks.

If I can help, just let me know.

I have a few bugs to report, although I can't give a detailed account
of what is wrong:

Emacs hangs quite often. The only recourse then is to kill it (e.g. with
Force quit). An example of when this happens:

1. I had (setq-default TeX-master nil) which causes auctex to always prompt
   for a master file when you open a new .tex file. At that moment it hang
   (always). It took me some time to find that I had to diable that
   statement to let me open new TeX files without getting the hang. It
   seems to hang in a select in readline... (one of the C functions)

2. Debugging elisp with edebug-defun: Sooner or later emacs will complain
   that x-selection-exists-p is undefined. It is disabled in the source and
   enabling it just makes emacs hang immediately. When I define it with a
   dummy (just returning nil) emacs hangs almost immediately, namely at the
   first time it prompts you. This thing makes debugging elisp code
   extremely difficult. Apparently there is something wrong in the input
   handling. 

Good luck an be assured of my thankfulness for your porting emacs. Without
your port I wouldn't have bought an iBook, so Apple should also be grateful
for your efforts.
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Piet van Oostrum <pi...@cs...>
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