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1 Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. | |
2 See the end of the file for license conditions. | |
3 | |
4 Emacs.app | |
5 ========= | |
6 | |
7 This file introduces the NeXTstep-based port of GNU Emacs, known as | |
8 Emacs.app, which runs on on many POSIX systems and possibly W32 using | |
9 the GNUstep libraries and on MacOS X systems using the Cocoa | |
10 libraries. The directory "nextstep" and its subdirectories "Cocoa" | |
11 and "GNUstep" contain files relevant to building and running on these | |
12 systems. | |
13 | |
14 Those primarily responsible for the port (in chronological order) were: | |
15 | |
16 Michael Brouwer | |
17 Carl Edman | |
18 Christian Limpach | |
19 Scott Bender | |
20 Christophe de Dinechin | |
21 Adrian Robert | |
22 | |
23 See AUTHORS file and "Release History" below for more information. | |
24 | |
25 GNU Emacs is due to Richard Stallman and company. | |
26 | |
27 The GNUstep port was made possible through the assistance of Adam Fedor, Fred | |
28 Kiefer, M. Uli Klusterer, Alexander Malmberg, Jonas Matton, and Riccardo | |
29 Mottola. | |
30 | |
31 Peter Dyballa assisted in a variety of ways to improve text rendering and | |
32 keyboard handling. Adam Ratcliffe documented the Preferences panel. David | |
33 M. Cooke contributed fixes to XPM handling. Carsten Bormann helped get dired | |
34 working for non-ASCII filenames. | |
35 | |
36 | |
37 Requirements | |
38 ------------ | |
39 MacOS X 10.3 or later | |
40 - or - | |
41 GNUstep "Startup 0.13" or later | |
42 Tested on linux, should work on other systems, perhaps with minor build | |
43 tweaking. | |
44 | |
45 | |
46 Compilation | |
47 ----------- | |
48 | |
49 See INSTALL. | |
50 | |
51 | |
52 Usage | |
53 ----- | |
54 | |
55 Please use the first entry under the help menu within Emacs.app, do | |
56 "M-x info-ns-emacs". | |
57 | |
58 | |
59 Background | |
60 ---------- | |
61 | |
62 Internally to emacs, the port and its code are referred to using the term | |
63 "NeXTstep", despite the fact that no system or API has been released under | |
64 this name in more than 10 years. Here's some background on why.. | |
65 | |
66 NeXT, Inc. introduced the NeXTstep API with its computer and operating system | |
67 in the late 1980's. Later on in collaboration with Sun, this API was | |
68 published as a specification called OpenStep. The GNUstep project started in | |
69 the early 1990's to provide a free implementation of this API. Later on, | |
70 Apple bought NeXT (some would say "NeXT bought Apple") and made OpenStep the | |
71 basis of OS X, calling the API "Cocoa". Since then, Cocoa has evolved beyond | |
72 the OpenStep specification, and GNUstep has followed it. | |
73 | |
74 Thus, calling this port "OpenStep" is not technically accurate, and in the | |
75 absence of any other determinant, we are using the term "NeXTstep", both | |
76 because it signifies the original inspiration that created these APIs, and | |
77 because all of the classes and functions still begin with the letters "NS". | |
78 | |
79 (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nextstep) | |
80 | |
81 This Emacs port was first released in the early 1990's on the NeXT computer, | |
82 and was successively updated to OpenStep, Rhapsody, OS X, and then finally | |
83 GNUstep, tracking GNU emacs core releases in the meantime. | |
84 | |
85 | |
86 | |
87 Release History | |
88 --------------- | |
89 | |
90 1990-1992 1.0-3.0 (?) Michael Brouwer's socket/terminal communication | |
91 based version (GUI ran as a separate process.) | |
92 | |
93 1993/10/25 3.0.1 Last (?) release of Brouwer version. Supports | |
94 NeXTstep 3.x and below. | |
95 | |
96 1994/04/24 4.0 Carl Edman's version using direct API following | |
97 the X-Windows port. NeXTstep 3.x only. | |
98 | |
99 1995/06/15 4.1 Second (and last) Carl Edman release, based on | |
100 Emacs 19.28. | |
101 | |
102 1996/07/28 4.2 First Christian Limpach release, based on | |
103 Emacs 19.29. | |
104 | |
105 ?? 5.0 ?? | |
106 | |
107 1997/12/?? 6.0b1 Ported to OpenStep by Scott Bender. Updated | |
108 to Emacs 20.2. | |
109 | |
110 ?? 6.0b2 (?) Scott Bender: ported to Rhapsody. | |
111 | |
112 1999/05/?? 6.0b3 Scott Bender: "OS X Server", Emacs 20.3. | |
113 | |
114 2001/06/25 7.0 Ported to MacOS X (10.1) by Christophe de | |
115 Dinechin. Release based on Emacs 20.7. Hosting | |
116 moved to SourceForge. | |
117 | |
118 2002/01/03 7.0.1 Bug fixes. | |
119 | |
120 2002/08/27 7.0.2 Jaguar (OS X 10.2) support. Added an autoconf | |
121 option for sys_nerr being in stdio. Added | |
122 libncurses to the build libraries. Fixed a | |
123 problem with ns-alternate-is-meta. Changed the | |
124 icon color to blue, since Jaguar is yellow. | |
125 | |
126 2004/10/07 8.0-pre1 Ported to GNUstep by Adrian Robert. | |
127 | |
128 2004/11/04 8.0-pre2 Restored functionality on OS X (menu code | |
129 cleanup). Improved scrollbar handling and | |
130 paste from other applications. File icons | |
131 obtained properly from NSWorkspace. Dropped | |
132 Gorm and Nib files. Background refresh bug | |
133 fixed (in GNUstep). Various small fixes and | |
134 code cleanups. Now starts up under Art. | |
135 | |
136 2005/01/27 8.0-pre3 Bold and italic faces supported. Cursor and | |
137 mouse highlighting rendering bugs | |
138 fixed. Drag/drop and cut/paste interaction | |
139 w/external apps fixed. File load/save panels | |
140 available. Stability and rendering speed | |
141 improvements. Some ObjC and VC mode bugs fixed. | |
142 | |
143 2005/02/27 8.0-rc1 Dynamic path detection at startup so Emacs.app | |
144 can be moved anywhere. Added binary packages | |
145 and simplified source installation to running | |
146 two scripts. Thorough cleanup of menu code; | |
147 now fully functional. Fixed all detected | |
148 memory leaks. Minor frame focus and title | |
149 bugs fixed. | |
150 | |
151 2005/03/30 8.0-rc2 "Configure" info directory now uses dynamic | |
152 path setting, so info files can go under .app. | |
153 Improved select() handling and PTY fixes so | |
154 shell mode and tramp run smoothly. | |
155 Significant rendering optimizations under | |
156 GNUstep, and now works under Art backend. | |
157 Non-Latin text rendering works (but not | |
158 fontsets), and LEIM is bundled. UTF8 is used | |
159 for clipboard interaction. | |
160 Arrow cursor now used on scrollbar. | |
161 objc-mode and tramp now bundled in site-lisp. | |
162 | |
163 2005/05/30 8.0-rc3 Fixed bug with parsing of "easymenu" menus. | |
164 Many problems with modes such as SLIME, MatLab, | |
165 and Planner go away. Improved scrollbar | |
166 handling and rendering speed. Color panel | |
167 and other bug fixes. mac-fix-env utility. | |
168 Font handling improvements (OS X 10.3, 10.4): | |
169 - heed 'GSFontAntiAlias' default | |
170 - heed system antialiasing threshold | |
171 - added 'UseQuickdrawSmoothing' default to | |
172 invoke less heavy antialiasing | |
173 | |
174 2005/07/05 8.0-rc4 Added a Preferences panel. Cleaned up | |
175 rendering for synthetic italic fonts. Further | |
176 improved menu parsing. Use system highlight | |
177 color. Added previous- and next-mark history | |
178 navigation commmands bound to M-p,M-n. | |
179 Miscellaneous bug fixes. | |
180 | |
181 2005/08/04 8.0-rc5 All internal string handling changed to UTF-8. | |
182 This means menu items, color and color list | |
183 names, and a few other things will now display | |
184 properly. It does NOT mean UTF-8 filenames | |
185 are displayed correctly in the minibuffer. | |
186 Also relating to UTF-8, contents of files | |
187 using this coding can now be displayed (though | |
188 not auto-recognized; add extensions to your | |
189 default coding alist). Limited mac-roman | |
190 support was also added (also sans recognition). | |
191 Certain characters are not displayed properly | |
192 due to a translation problem. (UTF-8 based on | |
193 work by Otfried Cheong; mac-roman from | |
194 emacs-21.) Partial support for "dead-key" | |
195 handling now added. Transparency (e.g., M-x | |
196 set-background-color ARGB88FFFFFF) improved: | |
197 only the background is made transparent. | |
198 Cursor drawing glitches fixed. Preferences | |
199 handling improved. Fixed some portability | |
200 problems on Tiger and Puma. | |
201 | |
202 2005/09/12 8.0 Bundled ispell on OS X. Minor bug fixes and | |
203 stability improvements. Compiles under gcc-4. | |
204 | |
205 2005/09/26 8.0.1 Correct clipped rendering for synthetic | |
206 italics. Include the info directory. | |
207 Fix grabenv. Bundle whitespace package. | |
208 | |
209 2005/10/27 8.0.2 Correct rendering for wide characters during | |
210 cursor movement. Fix bungled hack in ispell | |
211 bundling. | |
212 | |
213 2005/11/05 9.0-pre1 Updated to latest Emacs CVS code on unicode-2 | |
214 branch (proposed to be released 2006/2007 as | |
215 Emacs 23). | |
216 | |
217 2005/11/11 9.0-pre2 Fix crashes for deiconifying and loading | |
218 certain images. Improve vertical font metrics | |
219 (fixes inaccurate page up/down, window size, | |
220 and partial lines). Support better remapping | |
221 of Alt/Opt and remapping of Command. More | |
222 insistent defaulting of scrollbar to right. | |
223 Modest improvements to build process. | |
224 | |
225 2006/04/22 9.0-pre2a Stopgap interim release to sync w/latest | |
226 unicode-2 CVS. Includes XPM and partial | |
227 toolbar support. | |
228 | |
229 2006/06/08 9.0-pre3 Major upgrade to keyboard handling: | |
230 system-selected compositional input methods | |
231 should now work, as well as more keys / | |
232 keyboards. XPM, toolbar, and tooltip support. | |
233 Some improvements to scrollbars, zoom, italic | |
234 rendering, pasting, Color panel. Added function | |
235 ns-set-background-alpha to work around | |
236 inability to customize with numeric colors. | |
237 | |
238 2006/12/24 9.0-rc1 Reworked font handling and text rendering to | |
239 use Kenichi Handa's new font back-end system. | |
240 Font sets are now supported and automatically | |
241 created when a font is selected. Added recent | |
242 X11 colors to Emacs.clr (remove | |
243 ~/Library/Colors/Emacs.clr to pick up). Added | |
244 ns-option-modifier, ns-control-modifier, | |
245 ns-function-modifier customization variables. | |
246 Update menus to Emacs 21+ conventions. Right | |
247 mouse button now generates mouse-3 events. | |
248 Various bug fixes and rendering improvements. | |
249 | |
250 2007/09/10 9.0-rc2 Improve menubar, popup menu, and scrollbar | |
251 behavior, let accented char entry work in | |
252 isearch, follow system keymap for shortcut | |
253 keys, fix border and box drawing, remove | |
254 glitches in modeline drawing, support | |
255 overstrike for unavailable bold fonts, fix XPM | |
256 related crasher bugs. Incremental font | |
257 metrics caching and other performance | |
258 improvements. Shared-lisp builds now possible. | |
259 | |
260 2007/09/20 9.0-rc2a Interim release. New features: composed | |
261 character display, colored fringe bitmaps, | |
262 colored relief drawing, dynamic resizing, | |
263 Bug fixes: popup menu position and selection, | |
264 font width calculation, face color adaptation | |
265 to background, submenu keyboard navigation. | |
266 NOT TESTED ON GNUSTEP. | |
267 | |
268 2007/11/19 9.0-rc3 Integrated the multi-TTY functionality from | |
269 emacs core (however, mixed TTY and GUI | |
270 sessions are not working yet). Support 10.5. | |
271 Give site-lisp load precedence over lisp and | |
272 add a compile option to prefer an additional | |
273 directory, use miniaturized miniwindow images | |
274 in some cases, rename cursor types for | |
275 consistency w/other emacs terms, improved font | |
276 selection for symbol scripts. | |
277 Bug fixes: fringe and bitmap, frame deletion, | |
278 resizing, cursor blink, workspace open-file, | |
279 image backgrounds, toolbar item enablement, | |
280 context menu positioning. | |
281 | |
282 2008/07/15 (none) Merge to GNU Emacs CVS trunk. | |
283 | |
284 | |
285 This file is part of GNU Emacs. | |
286 | |
287 GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify | |
288 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by | |
289 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or | |
290 (at your option) any later version. | |
291 | |
292 GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, | |
293 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of | |
294 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the | |
295 GNU General Public License for more details. | |
296 | |
297 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License | |
298 along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. |