From 4609e80c756d70189fbc931338a67c85934edef3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chong Yidong Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:22:56 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] * macos.texi (Mac OS / GNUstep): Add note about stability. --- doc/emacs/ChangeLog | 4 ++++ doc/emacs/macos.texi | 23 +++++++++++++---------- 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/emacs/ChangeLog b/doc/emacs/ChangeLog index e2e380226c0..7a5a4924fc4 100644 --- a/doc/emacs/ChangeLog +++ b/doc/emacs/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2009-07-15 Chong Yidong + + * macos.texi (Mac OS / GNUstep): Add note about stability. + 2009-07-15 Glenn Morris * misc.texi (Gnus): Remove widow. diff --git a/doc/emacs/macos.texi b/doc/emacs/macos.texi index fd813804538..3fd070a12e7 100644 --- a/doc/emacs/macos.texi +++ b/doc/emacs/macos.texi @@ -15,16 +15,19 @@ without window system support, with X11, or with the Cocoa interface. This 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. @menu * Mac / GNUstep Basics:: Basic Emacs usage under GNUstep or Mac OS. -- 2.39.5