On Feb 5, 2008, at 12:32 AM, Jochen Küpper wrote:
The leopard shipped emacs is linked with Carbon. You don't NEED X for that version if you use the app wrapper I sent out - it supports the NATIVE window system.
How is one supposed to find that out?
Run emacs. :-) If you look at the startup screen text, you'll see: GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (mac-apple-darwin, Carbon Version 1.6.0) of 2008-01-30 on localhost
Why is Emacs.app not part of Mac OS X?
Some of us tried mightily to ship the app wrapper, but the look-and- feel just isn't up to snuff yet. I have to agree that it's pretty ugly, though I still think it would have been better to have it than not. Oh well. Perhaps we can work on improving the Carbon port in the interim.
When / how long will this Carbon Emacs be supported?
There are no plans to stop shipping it this way. - Jordan