Re: Emacs and GNUstep

[Germán Arias]

On 2014-03-09 03:16:57 -0600 Riccardo Mottola <riccardo.mottola@libero.it> 
wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> how is the actual state of Emacs on GNUstep? Is there any semi-working 
> distribution? We used to have two different forks, which both worked on 
> GNUstep and and on old Mac 10.2/10.3... one replaced the other (Aquamacs? I 
> don't remember). BUt I remember testing!!
> 
> Then things got into the main Emacs branch and newer Mac and got required and 
> I never got GNUstep working...
> 
> I think it is time to get the editor I use anyway for objective-c with our 
> nice interface and menus! The GTK3 version is just unbearable ;)
> 
> Riccardo
> 

The state has not changed, emacs with ns compile fine but crash at launch in 
some distributions. Anyway, if run, is very slow, the scrollbar is a disaster, 
if you resize the window the buffer stay with a fixed size. And many other 
problems.

However Yamamoto Mitsuharu is working in a port for Mac OS. He is not 
interested in put this at emacs trunk. And I have not tested it, but we can 
take ideas. See:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2014-02/msg00592.html

Other solution is make an app based in Terminal.app (plus improvements) to 
allow run emacs. I tried this some years ago, but unfortunately I lost this 
app. But if I remember correctly, this took two days or so of work to read 
mouse events.

Germán.