1 Emacs for Mac OS 8/9 and Mac OS X
3 Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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16 This directory contains the files needed to build Emacs on the Mac OS
17 8/9 and Mac OS X. Many of the major features of the Unix version are
18 supported: multiple frames, colors, scroll bars, menu bars, use of the
19 mouse, fontsets, international characters, input methods, and coding
22 Mac OS specific support includes document drag-and-drop in the Finder,
23 transfer of text to and from other applications via the clipboard, and
24 sending AppleScript commands to other applications from Emacs.
26 The following are not supported on Mac OS 8/9 : unexec (dump-emacs),
27 asynchronous subprocesses (start-process), and networking
28 (open-network-stream). These features work fine on Mac OS X.
30 There is basic support for synchronous subprocesses (call-process) on
31 Mac OS 8/9 although Unix commands that are used will need to be
34 Metrowerks CodeWarrior Pro 6 or MPW-GM (August 2001) can be used to
35 build Emacs on the Mac OS 8/9. On Mac OS X, Emacs can be built using
36 the Developer Tools. See the INSTALL file in this directory for
37 instructions on building Emacs.
39 Read the Mac OS section of the on-line help to find out about how to
42 A number of things do not work yet:
44 + Emacs does not respond correctly to C-g under certain circumstances.
45 Sending the Emacs process a SIGINT externally will cause it
46 to interrupt. This is due to the architecture of OSX's
49 + Support for certain image types (such as XPM) is not as extensive as
52 + Incorporate Apple's wrappers to be able to create a universal
53 binary that unexecs on first run for the given architecture.
55 If your Mac is connected to the Internet, report bugs by typing `M-x
56 report-emacs-bug' or by choosing the entry `Send Bug Report...' in
57 the `Help' menu. This will send the bug report to the address
58 emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org.