Re: a little feedback on Cocoa Emacs.app

[Adrian Robert]

On Jul 27, 2008, at 12:45 PM, Ken Raeburn wrote:
> > > 4) under Spaces, I found it kind of annoying not to have a
> > > "new window" option in the dock menu
> >
> > This seems like something it would be better if Apple fixed, since it
> > affects all applications.  Have you reported it to them?  It could be
> > added to Emacs.app pretty easily I think, though right now priorities
> > are on bug-fixing and code cleanup.
>
> "New window" isn't something all applications support.  For those  
> that do support creating new windows, like Mail, sometimes you have  
> to create specific types of windows (new message, new message  
> viewer).  I'm not sure what Apple could do in the generic case,

Ah, OK, I added it to FOR-RELEASE.  Would you like to work on it?  ;)



> > > Actually, in my experience, the close button or equivalent on the  
> > > last Emacs window causes Emacs to quit, in X, Carbon, and Windows  
> > > versions; the Cocoa version is behaving differently by ignoring it.

This must have changed.. it used to do nothing and say "attempted to  
delete last or sole visible frame" or something like that.  On the  
other hand, I can't find any code in the NS port that seems to pertain  
to this, so I'm not sure where the special behavior is coming from.   
Hmm..