README
1Emacs for Mac OS Classic and Mac OS X
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3Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005,
4 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5See the end of the file for license conditions.
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8This directory contains the files needed to build Emacs on the Mac OS
9Classic and Mac OS X. Many of the major features of the Unix version
10are supported: multiple frames, colors, scroll bars, menu bars, use of
11the mouse, fontsets, international characters, input methods, and
12coding systems.
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14Mac OS specific support includes document drag-and-drop in the Finder,
15transfer of text to and from other applications via the clipboard, and
16sending AppleScript commands to other applications from Emacs.
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18The following are not supported on Mac OS Classic: unexec (dump-emacs),
19asynchronous subprocesses (start-process), and networking
20(open-network-stream). These features work fine on Mac OS X.
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22There is basic support for synchronous subprocesses (call-process) on
23Mac OS Classic (non-Carbon build only) although Unix commands that are
24used will need to be ported.
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26MPW-GM (August 2001) can be used to build Emacs on the Mac OS Classic.
27On Mac OS X, Emacs can be built using the Developer Tools. See the
28INSTALL file in this directory for instructions on building Emacs.
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30Read the Mac OS section of the on-line help to find out about how to
31use Emacs on the Mac.
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33A number of things do not work yet:
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35+ Support for PostScript image type is not available.
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37+ Incorporate Apple's wrappers to be able to create a universal
38 binary that unexecs on first run for the given architecture.
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40If your Mac is connected to the Internet, report bugs by typing `M-x
41report-emacs-bug' or by choosing the entry `Send Bug Report...' in
42the `Help' menu. This will send the bug report to the address
43emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org.
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45Steven
46<steven.tamm@mac.com>
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48This file is part of GNU Emacs.
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50GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
51it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
52the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
53any later version.
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55GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
56but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
57MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
58GNU General Public License for more details.
59
60You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
61along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the
62Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
63Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
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