Re: Emacs on OS X development

[Pavlo Martynenko]

I've been using Mac Port since march and it is really great!
While NS port looks ugly, and works with problems (it has problems with C-g, 
font rendering, modifier keys, multiprocessing, networking).
NS port may be used on GNUStep, but not on osx.


On 16 Jul 2012, at 01:11, chad wrote:

> Do you use a relocatable .app bundle, or does your mac version scatter lots 
> of stuff around /usr/local?  This latter is a pet peeve of mine that I had 
> surprising trouble avoiding.

I don't. I'm using homebrew, and console version of emacs in /usr/local is fine 
for me.
But it is nice to have it as an option.


On 16 Jul 2012, at 00:34, Donald Curtis wrote:

> I have found that there are problems using the current ns version over screen 
> sharing (input to the GUI fails).  I have also noticed that when doing HTTP 
> connections, things tended to get stuck on the ns-port until I gave some 
> keyboard or mouse input over the GUI.  

True.

> My only complaint is that now that Yamamoto has included the GUI animation 
> stuff, it triggers my discrete GPU on my laptop, something I would like it to 
> not do.

Agree, GUI animation in Mac port is unnecessary. The less GPU, the more battery.


On 16 Jul 2012, at 00:20, Donald Curtis wrote:

> For anyone using Homebrew on OS X that wants to try the "mac" version, I have 
> updated the "emacs.rb" build recipe to allow a "--mac" option when building 
> Emacs.  It is working for me but not accepted in the main Homebrew tree 
> because the maintainers weren't sure how many people would use it.

And how much maintainer wants? You may count on me + one or two :)



        Pavlo