Re: Xwidget webkit support for macOS X Cocoa

[Jaesup Kwak]

On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 12:59 AM, Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:

On 11/27/2017 11:13 PM, Jaesup Kwak wrote:

I made a work supporting Emacs xwidget webkit for macOS X, which works with Cocoa and Safari webkit frameworks without need of GTK and X window. You can t ry it on master branch of https://github.com/veshboo/emacs

Thanks, could you please briefly characterize how this relates to what's already in GNU Emacs, and to the Emacs Mac Port <https://bitbucket.org/mituharu/emacs-mac/>? (Sorry, I don't know macOS well.)

This work provides NSView (Cocoa AppKit) and WKWebView (Safari WebKit)

based backend for the Emacs xwidget webkit feature (--with-xwidgets).

The current GNU Emacs xwidget webkit feature requires X window, GTK,

and WebKitGTK even on macOS, it runs OK but not gets along with

macOS's GUI environment.

With my work, it requires only AppKit and WebKit (these are available

on macOS X without manual installation) and the resulting graphical

web browsing in Emacs buffer shows better look in the macOS GUI

environment.

Most changes are made in the following files (about 30 commits):

* configure.ac src/Makefile.in: Enable xwidgets also if NS (macOS) and

  WebKit available

* src/xwidget.[ch]: For USE_GTK or HAVE_NS, conditional compile of

  non-Lisp_Object part of pseudo vector structure and operations on it

* src/nsxwidget.[mh]: Newly added files, provide NS backend for

  xwidget and webkit

* lisp/xwidget.el: Some fixes and enhancements while development and

  testing of ns xwidget webkit support

 

And this work has no relation to the Emacs Mac Port. I cloned from

'git.sv.gnu.org/emacs.git' and made this work. And I also see no support

for NS Cocoa and Safari WebKit based xwidget webkit in the Emacs Mac

Port.

Also, can willing to sign papers contributing your changes to the Free Software Foundation? If so, please let me know and I can send you info about how to do that.

Sure, I can do that, send me the info, please.

Thanks,