Re: Cocoa Emacs

[Adrian Robert]

On Aug 28, 2008, at 3:29 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:

> > > ... Emacs expects to find the DOC
> > ...
> > "make install"
>
> What would be ood would be to allow "run in place" as is done for X11.
> E.g. I basically *never* do "make install", I always just do "make"  
> and
> then run src/emacs.  Some of the reason why this is good is that C-h
> f and C-h v allow you to jump to the checked out source code from  
> which
> you built the code, rather than some copy of it.


Running an NS application in GUI mode requires the .app bundle  
structure.  So running straight out of src/emacs could not work.  But  
right now basic .app bundle, sans support binaries, is mostly  
assembled (under nextstep/) by plain "make".  Some load-path jockeying  
could probably get this to run without "make install", but care would  
need to be taken to do this compatibly with both shared-lisp and self- 
contained final installs.