section only applies to the Cocoa build. Emacs 23 does not support Mac OS
Classic.
- Emacs, when built on Mac OS X, uses the Cocoa application interface. For
-various historical and technical reasons, Emacs uses the term @samp{Nextstep}
-internally, instead of ``Cocoa'' or ``Mac OS X''; for instance, most of the
-commands and variables described in the following sections begin with
-@samp{ns-}, which is short for @samp{Nextstep}. NeXTstep was an application
-interface released by NeXT Inc during the 1980s, of which Cocoa is a direct
-descendant. Apart from Cocoa, there is another NeXTstep-style system:
-GNUstep, which is free software. As of this writing, the GNUstep support is
-alpha status (@pxref{GNUstep Support}), but we hope to improve it in the
-future.
+ Emacs, when built on Mac OS X, uses the Cocoa application interface.
+For historical and technical reasons, Emacs uses the term
+@samp{Nextstep} internally, instead of ``Cocoa'' or ``Mac OS X''; for
+instance, most of the commands and variables described in the
+following sections begin with @samp{ns-}, which is short for
+@samp{Nextstep}. NeXTstep was an application interface released by
+NeXT Inc during the 1980s, of which Cocoa is a direct descendant.
+Apart from Cocoa, there is one other NeXTstep-style system: GNUstep,
+which is free software. At the moment, Emacs has only incomplete
+support for GNUstep (@pxref{GNUstep Support}).
+
+ As of the 23.1 release, Emacs is not as stable on Cocoa as on other
+platforms. We hope to improve this in future releases.
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* Mac / GNUstep Basics:: Basic Emacs usage under GNUstep or Mac OS.