This sections contains features found in other official Emacs ports.
-**** Support for "xwidget"
+**** Support for xwidgets
-Emacs 25 has support for "xwidgets", a system to include operating
+Emacs 25 has support for xwidgets, a system to include operating
system components into an Emacs buffer. The components range from
-simple buttons to "webkit" (effectively, a web browser).
+simple buttons to webkit (effectively, a web browser).
-Currently, "xwidget" only works for the "gtk+" framework but it is
+Currently, xwidgets works only for the gtk+ framework but it is
designed to be compatible with multiple Emacs ports.
-**** Respect `frame-inhibit-implied-resize'
+**** Respect 'frame-inhibit-implied-resize'
-When the variable `frame-inhibit-implied-resize' is non-nil, frames
+When the variable 'frame-inhibit-implied-resize' is non-nil, frames
should not be resized when operations like changing font or toggling
the tool bar is performed.
Unfortunately, the tool bar (and possible other operations) always
resize the frame.
-**** Support `proced' (implement `process-attributes')
+**** Support 'proced' (implement 'process-attributes')
Unfortunately, a user-level process like Emacs does not have the
privileges to get information about other processes under OS X.
3) Ask the user to self-sign Emacs, if this feature is of interest.
Anders Lindgren <andlind@gmail.com> has implemented
-`process-attributes' for OS X, which currently only work when
+'process-attributes' for OS X, which currently only work when
running Emacs as root.
See this article by Bozhidar Batsov for an overview of Proced:
popular features. However, there are drawbacks to this method: what
happens if only a fraction of a line is visible at the top of a
window, is the partially visible text considered part of the window or
-not? (Technically, what should `window-start' return.)
+not? (Technically, what should 'window-start' return.)
An alternative would be to make one-line scrolling the default on NS
(or in Emacs in general).
**** Mouse gestures
-The "mac" port defines the gestures `swipe-left/right/up/down',
-`magnify-up/down', and `rotate-left/right'.
+The "mac" port defines the gestures 'swipe-left/right/up/down',
+'magnify-up/down', and 'rotate-left/right'.
It also binds the magnification commands to change the font
size. (This should be not be done in a specific interface, instead
**** Incorrect translation of Super modifier with Ctrl or Meta on OS X
-When pressing `M-s-a', Emacs replies "M-s-å is undefined". What
+When pressing 'M-s-a', Emacs replies "M-s-å is undefined". What
happened is a mix of Emacs view that Meta and Super has been pressed,
-and OS X view that ALT-a should yield "å".
+and OS X view that ALT-a should yield "å" (U+00E5 LATIN SMALL LETTER A
+WITH RING ABOVE).
-The bug reports suggests two different patched, unfortunately, none
-work properly. For example:
+The bug reports suggest two different patches; unfortunately, neither
+works properly. For example:
Use a Swedish keyboard layout
"CMD-ALT-9"
-Today, this correctly yields that s-] is undefined. With the either
+Today, this correctly yields that s-] is undefined. With either
of the two patches, Emacs responds that s-9 was pressed.
More investigation is needed to fix this problem.
A better solution would be for the frame to retain its size,
i.e. change the text area.
-This is related to the `frame-inhibit-implied-resize' issue.
+This is related to the 'frame-inhibit-implied-resize' issue.
**** The event loop does not redraw.
A problem is that redraw don't happen during resize,