Re: How to install Xemacs on MacOS X ?
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
>>>>> "Pete" == Pete Oster
<poster(a)inter.net> writes:
Pete> Try as I might, I can't come up with any reason to force
Pete> other interested people to have to search for this
Pete> information themselves.
Thanks for your effort. Forwarding to the developers. Followups
set to xemacs-beta.
Pete> The comments in square brackets are mine. As you'll see, my
Pete> attempt to build this failed.
Unless the Carbon code has changed since December 2002 (which I believe it
has not), the resulting XEmacs runs very slowly and has problems with
efficient reading of keyboard events. The problem seems to be in the
wrapper that handles the Mac events--everything gets filtered through this
wrapper, and it looks like the old-fashioned wrappers I have seen in early
Windows/GEM/Mac programs that check many status events while waiting for
input. To me it looked like a Pascal program translated to C.
Anyway, I think with X11 from Apple's being available, the Cocoa branch
hasn't much usefulness. An actual native version in the same way that the
Windows native version is native might be useful. For those who have no
other use for X, you could save 10-15 MB of physical memory.
r. royar (I am not much of a programmer--just an Emacs user for the last 18
years, and Lucid since 1995.)