Hi all,
I've made the first release of "Emacs.app", the GNUstep / OS X port of
emacs once known as "Emacs on Aqua" updated to the latest GNU Emacs
CVS, unicode-2 branch. Relative to Emacs on Aqua, this port supports
proportional fonts, images, and all the latest lisp packages.
http://emacs-app.sf.net/
This is a developer, source-only release. It is stable, but some
functionality (toolbars, tooltips) remains to be implemented, and
non-ascii text rendering and keyboard handling need work.
In addition, on GNUstep, exec image dumping is not working, which means
startup time is very slow. I welcome any help people are willing to
offer on fixing this and improving the build process on Linux, *BSD,
and any other system someone wants to work on. Note that gnustep-make
is not currently used because Emacs has a complex build process and
Makefiles of its own, but it may be possible to invoke it as a
sub-task. Also, this port is only working right now using the Art
back-end. Xlib crashes on startup, and I haven't been able to track it
down yet. I've been using the latest CVS, but as far as I know the
last couple of Startup releases should work.
Note that the unicode-2 branch of emacs uses unicode internally and is
frequently sync'ed with the CVS Head which is going to be released soon
as Emacs 22. However it is currently designated for the next, Emacs 23
release cycle, probably late 2006. It would be trivial to port
Emacs.app to Emacs 22 as well, however non-ascii rendering would not
work, or require some code that I used in Emacs on Aqua that may not be
easy to get into the GNU mainline due to the necessity of a copyright
assignment. (Emacs.app should be able to be accepted on the unicode-2
branch however.)
Anyway, if you try it (with Art) and it works or doesn't work, feel
free to let me know directly, but note there is also a mailing list,
[EMAIL PROTECTED], managed through the SourceForge
site, for developer discussion.
enjoy,
Adrian
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