Re: app termination / ns resources

[Mike Mattie]

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 11:59:25AM +0200, Adrian Robert wrote:
> [cc'ing emacs-devel]
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>> Also, I have a removed the NS resources and also the ns-expand-lines 
>> business, which helped with the interrupted pattern in the fringe for some 
>> (but not all) fonts.  I will test this a little more and check it in later 
>> this week.
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> One final dying thought about this ;) -- the way it was prefs-panel <-> ns 
> defaults <-> platform-specific settings was a neat way of keeping the 
> NS-specific stuff, be it line spacing or modifier keys, out of .emacs, etc. 
> so they would not interfere when moving a .emacs across platforms.
>
> As some of these were or are being brought up to the core level, this path 
> can and should go away. However, what WILL be remaining platform-specific 
> after the current round are:
>
> - modifier key settings
> - system highlight color switch
> - antialiasing switch
> - quickdraw smoothing switch
>
> As these get moved to .emacs, it is important to make sure settings for 
> these don't pollute it in a way so as to cause migration problems.  I don't 
> know but it would be nice if there were some way to use .emacs and core 
> customization but have these settings conditionalized on whether the 
> variables exist, or whether the windowing system is 'ns.

I maintain an emacs across a few different platforms. To do this I use
the following peice of code below.

    (load-user-elisp
      (cond
        ((string-equal "gnu/linux" system-type)  "linux.el")
        ((string-equal "darwin"    system-type)  "darwin.el")))

load-user-elisp is my own function. You would need to convert that to
the Emacs distributed function (load)

For dealing with the whole range of these kinds of issues I made the following
package: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Grail

It would not be a good idea to make the platform specific switch based on
a check of the window system, as Emacs can always run in tty mode and the
test would be broken.

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> Finally, the face color setting system will still need to be changed to use 
> the .emacs path.
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