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+Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+See the end of the file for license conditions.
+
+Emacs.app
+=========
+
+This file introduces the NeXTstep-based port of GNU Emacs, known as
+Emacs.app, which runs on on many POSIX systems and possibly W32 using
+the GNUstep libraries and on MacOS X systems using the Cocoa
+libraries. The directory "nextstep" and its subdirectories "Cocoa"
+and "GNUstep" contain files relevant to building and running on these
+systems.
+
+Those primarily responsible for the port (in chronological order) were:
+
+Michael Brouwer
+Carl Edman
+Christian Limpach
+Scott Bender
+Christophe de Dinechin
+Adrian Robert
+
+See AUTHORS file and "Release History" below for more information.
+
+GNU Emacs is due to Richard Stallman and company.
+
+The GNUstep port was made possible through the assistance of Adam Fedor, Fred
+Kiefer, M. Uli Klusterer, Alexander Malmberg, Jonas Matton, and Riccardo
+Mottola.
+
+Peter Dyballa assisted in a variety of ways to improve text rendering and
+keyboard handling. Adam Ratcliffe documented the Preferences panel. David
+M. Cooke contributed fixes to XPM handling. Carsten Bormann helped get dired
+working for non-ASCII filenames.
+
+
+Requirements
+------------
+MacOS X 10.3 or later
+- or -
+GNUstep "Startup 0.13" or later
+Tested on linux, should work on other systems, perhaps with minor build
+tweaking.
+
+
+Compilation
+-----------
+
+See INSTALL.
+
+
+Usage
+-----
+
+Please use the first entry under the help menu within Emacs.app, do
+"M-x info-ns-emacs".
+
+
+Background
+----------
+
+Internally to emacs, the port and its code are referred to using the term
+"NeXTstep", despite the fact that no system or API has been released under
+this name in more than 10 years. Here's some background on why..
+
+NeXT, Inc. introduced the NeXTstep API with its computer and operating system
+in the late 1980's. Later on in collaboration with Sun, this API was
+published as a specification called OpenStep. The GNUstep project started in
+the early 1990's to provide a free implementation of this API. Later on,
+Apple bought NeXT (some would say "NeXT bought Apple") and made OpenStep the
+basis of OS X, calling the API "Cocoa". Since then, Cocoa has evolved beyond
+the OpenStep specification, and GNUstep has followed it.
+
+Thus, calling this port "OpenStep" is not technically accurate, and in the
+absence of any other determinant, we are using the term "NeXTstep", both
+because it signifies the original inspiration that created these APIs, and
+because all of the classes and functions still begin with the letters "NS".
+
+(See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nextstep)
+
+This Emacs port was first released in the early 1990's on the NeXT computer,
+and was successively updated to OpenStep, Rhapsody, OS X, and then finally
+GNUstep, tracking GNU emacs core releases in the meantime.
+
+
+
+Release History
+---------------
+
+1990-1992 1.0-3.0 (?) Michael Brouwer's socket/terminal communication
+ based version (GUI ran as a separate process.)
+
+1993/10/25 3.0.1 Last (?) release of Brouwer version. Supports
+ NeXTstep 3.x and below.
+
+1994/04/24 4.0 Carl Edman's version using direct API following
+ the X-Windows port. NeXTstep 3.x only.
+
+1995/06/15 4.1 Second (and last) Carl Edman release, based on
+ Emacs 19.28.
+
+1996/07/28 4.2 First Christian Limpach release, based on
+ Emacs 19.29.
+
+?? 5.0 ??
+
+1997/12/?? 6.0b1 Ported to OpenStep by Scott Bender. Updated
+ to Emacs 20.2.
+
+?? 6.0b2 (?) Scott Bender: ported to Rhapsody.
+
+1999/05/?? 6.0b3 Scott Bender: "OS X Server", Emacs 20.3.
+
+2001/06/25 7.0 Ported to MacOS X (10.1) by Christophe de
+ Dinechin. Release based on Emacs 20.7. Hosting
+ moved to SourceForge.
+
+2002/01/03 7.0.1 Bug fixes.
+
+2002/08/27 7.0.2 Jaguar (OS X 10.2) support. Added an autoconf
+ option for sys_nerr being in stdio. Added
+ libncurses to the build libraries. Fixed a
+ problem with ns-alternate-is-meta. Changed the
+ icon color to blue, since Jaguar is yellow.
+
+2004/10/07 8.0-pre1 Ported to GNUstep by Adrian Robert.
+
+2004/11/04 8.0-pre2 Restored functionality on OS X (menu code
+ cleanup). Improved scrollbar handling and
+ paste from other applications. File icons
+ obtained properly from NSWorkspace. Dropped
+ Gorm and Nib files. Background refresh bug
+ fixed (in GNUstep). Various small fixes and
+ code cleanups. Now starts up under Art.
+
+2005/01/27 8.0-pre3 Bold and italic faces supported. Cursor and
+ mouse highlighting rendering bugs
+ fixed. Drag/drop and cut/paste interaction
+ w/external apps fixed. File load/save panels
+ available. Stability and rendering speed
+ improvements. Some ObjC and VC mode bugs fixed.
+
+2005/02/27 8.0-rc1 Dynamic path detection at startup so Emacs.app
+ can be moved anywhere. Added binary packages
+ and simplified source installation to running
+ two scripts. Thorough cleanup of menu code;
+ now fully functional. Fixed all detected
+ memory leaks. Minor frame focus and title
+ bugs fixed.
+
+2005/03/30 8.0-rc2 "Configure" info directory now uses dynamic
+ path setting, so info files can go under .app.
+ Improved select() handling and PTY fixes so
+ shell mode and tramp run smoothly.
+ Significant rendering optimizations under
+ GNUstep, and now works under Art backend.
+ Non-Latin text rendering works (but not
+ fontsets), and LEIM is bundled. UTF8 is used
+ for clipboard interaction.
+ Arrow cursor now used on scrollbar.
+ objc-mode and tramp now bundled in site-lisp.
+
+2005/05/30 8.0-rc3 Fixed bug with parsing of "easymenu" menus.
+ Many problems with modes such as SLIME, MatLab,
+ and Planner go away. Improved scrollbar
+ handling and rendering speed. Color panel
+ and other bug fixes. mac-fix-env utility.
+ Font handling improvements (OS X 10.3, 10.4):
+ - heed 'GSFontAntiAlias' default
+ - heed system antialiasing threshold
+ - added 'UseQuickdrawSmoothing' default to
+ invoke less heavy antialiasing
+
+2005/07/05 8.0-rc4 Added a Preferences panel. Cleaned up
+ rendering for synthetic italic fonts. Further
+ improved menu parsing. Use system highlight
+ color. Added previous- and next-mark history
+ navigation commmands bound to M-p,M-n.
+ Miscellaneous bug fixes.
+
+2005/08/04 8.0-rc5 All internal string handling changed to UTF-8.
+ This means menu items, color and color list
+ names, and a few other things will now display
+ properly. It does NOT mean UTF-8 filenames
+ are displayed correctly in the minibuffer.
+ Also relating to UTF-8, contents of files
+ using this coding can now be displayed (though
+ not auto-recognized; add extensions to your
+ default coding alist). Limited mac-roman
+ support was also added (also sans recognition).
+ Certain characters are not displayed properly
+ due to a translation problem. (UTF-8 based on
+ work by Otfried Cheong; mac-roman from
+ emacs-21.) Partial support for "dead-key"
+ handling now added. Transparency (e.g., M-x
+ set-background-color ARGB88FFFFFF) improved:
+ only the background is made transparent.
+ Cursor drawing glitches fixed. Preferences
+ handling improved. Fixed some portability
+ problems on Tiger and Puma.
+
+2005/09/12 8.0 Bundled ispell on OS X. Minor bug fixes and
+ stability improvements. Compiles under gcc-4.
+
+2005/09/26 8.0.1 Correct clipped rendering for synthetic
+ italics. Include the info directory.
+ Fix grabenv. Bundle whitespace package.
+
+2005/10/27 8.0.2 Correct rendering for wide characters during
+ cursor movement. Fix bungled hack in ispell
+ bundling.
+
+2005/11/05 9.0-pre1 Updated to latest Emacs CVS code on unicode-2
+ branch (proposed to be released 2006/2007 as
+ Emacs 23).
+
+2005/11/11 9.0-pre2 Fix crashes for deiconifying and loading
+ certain images. Improve vertical font metrics
+ (fixes inaccurate page up/down, window size,
+ and partial lines). Support better remapping
+ of Alt/Opt and remapping of Command. More
+ insistent defaulting of scrollbar to right.
+ Modest improvements to build process.
+
+2006/04/22 9.0-pre2a Stopgap interim release to sync w/latest
+ unicode-2 CVS. Includes XPM and partial
+ toolbar support.
+
+2006/06/08 9.0-pre3 Major upgrade to keyboard handling:
+ system-selected compositional input methods
+ should now work, as well as more keys /
+ keyboards. XPM, toolbar, and tooltip support.
+ Some improvements to scrollbars, zoom, italic
+ rendering, pasting, Color panel. Added function
+ ns-set-background-alpha to work around
+ inability to customize with numeric colors.
+
+2006/12/24 9.0-rc1 Reworked font handling and text rendering to
+ use Kenichi Handa's new font back-end system.
+ Font sets are now supported and automatically
+ created when a font is selected. Added recent
+ X11 colors to Emacs.clr (remove
+ ~/Library/Colors/Emacs.clr to pick up). Added
+ ns-option-modifier, ns-control-modifier,
+ ns-function-modifier customization variables.
+ Update menus to Emacs 21+ conventions. Right
+ mouse button now generates mouse-3 events.
+ Various bug fixes and rendering improvements.
+
+2007/09/10 9.0-rc2 Improve menubar, popup menu, and scrollbar
+ behavior, let accented char entry work in
+ isearch, follow system keymap for shortcut
+ keys, fix border and box drawing, remove
+ glitches in modeline drawing, support
+ overstrike for unavailable bold fonts, fix XPM
+ related crasher bugs. Incremental font
+ metrics caching and other performance
+ improvements. Shared-lisp builds now possible.
+
+2007/09/20 9.0-rc2a Interim release. New features: composed
+ character display, colored fringe bitmaps,
+ colored relief drawing, dynamic resizing,
+ Bug fixes: popup menu position and selection,
+ font width calculation, face color adaptation
+ to background, submenu keyboard navigation.
+ NOT TESTED ON GNUSTEP.
+
+2007/11/19 9.0-rc3 Integrated the multi-TTY functionality from
+ emacs core (however, mixed TTY and GUI
+ sessions are not working yet). Support 10.5.
+ Give site-lisp load precedence over lisp and
+ add a compile option to prefer an additional
+ directory, use miniaturized miniwindow images
+ in some cases, rename cursor types for
+ consistency w/other emacs terms, improved font
+ selection for symbol scripts.
+ Bug fixes: fringe and bitmap, frame deletion,
+ resizing, cursor blink, workspace open-file,
+ image backgrounds, toolbar item enablement,
+ context menu positioning.
+
+2008/07/15 (none) Merge to GNU Emacs CVS trunk.
+
+
+This file is part of GNU Emacs.
+
+GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+(at your option) any later version.
+
+GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.