Mac OS X has a customization mechanism called "preferences".
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/BPRuntimeConfig/Concepts/UserPreferences.html
I've just installed some changes that enable Carbon Emacs to get
preferences through X Resources functions (like registry on W32).
Now users can use preferences in place of X Resources.
For example, adding a line
Emacs.cursorType: bar
to ~/.Xresources in X11 corresponds to the execution of
% defaults write org.gnu.Emacs Emacs.cursorType bar
in Carbon. One can use boolean or numeric values as well as string
values.
% defaults write org.gnu.Emacs Emacs.toolBar -bool off
% defaults write org.gnu.Emacs Emacs.lineSpacing -int 3
Of course, you can directly edit your own
~/Library/Preferences/org.gnu.Emacs.plist with Property List Editor or
your favorite text editor :-)
I also added a function that reads arbitrary application preference
value and converts it a Lisp object. For example, evaluation of
(mac-get-preference "AppleLanguages") results in an array ["ja" "en"
"fr" "de" ...] of strings in my environment. Maybe this can be used
for setting up the default language environment at startup time.
YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
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