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author | Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> | 2022-02-14 14:05:46 +0800 |
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committer | Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> | 2022-02-14 14:05:46 +0800 |
commit | 0ba1ecc816fc2235ec57bc01ffa799a94aed4a39 (patch) | |
tree | cd2349f4d93fe1bda6f9806936f8428a67a325a5 /etc | |
parent | 32fbda5c37d7c11201df8232c1cc6e2b5d88791e (diff) | |
download | emacs-0ba1ecc816fc2235ec57bc01ffa799a94aed4a39.tar.gz |
* etc/TODO: Update some entires related to macOS and NS.
Xwidgets have worked on NS for a long time, "smooth scrolling"
is now available as `pixel-scroll-precision-mode' for all GUI
platforms, and some mouse gestures have been implemented on NS
and X.
Diffstat (limited to 'etc')
-rw-r--r-- | etc/TODO | 41 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 27 deletions
@@ -907,17 +907,17 @@ It would make it easy to add (and remove) mappings like *** Missing features This sections contains features found in other official Emacs ports. -**** Support for xwidgets -Emacs 25 has support for xwidgets, a system to include operating -system components into an Emacs buffer. The components range from -simple buttons to webkit (effectively, a web browser). +**** Improved xwidgets support +Emacs 25 has support for xwidgets, a system to include WebKit widgets +into an Emacs buffer. -Currently, xwidgets work only for the gtk+ framework but they are -designed to be compatible with multiple Emacs ports. +They work on NS, but not very well. For example, trying to display a +xwidget in the "killed" state will make Emacs crash. This is because +the NS code has not been updated to keep with recent changes to the +X11 and GTK code. -(See the scratch/nsxwidget branch, and the discussion around -Objective-C code and GCC at -https://lists.gnu.org/r/emacs-devel/2019-08/msg00072.html ) +Many features such as xwidget-webkit-edit-mode do not work correctly +on NS either. **** Respect 'frame-inhibit-implied-resize' When the variable 'frame-inhibit-implied-resize' is non-nil, frames @@ -990,29 +990,16 @@ It has been maintained in parallel to the official Cocoa-based NS interface. The Carbon interface has been enhanced, and a number of the features of that interface could be implemented NS. -**** Smooth scrolling -- maybe not a good idea -Today, by default, scrolling with a trackpad makes the text move in -steps of one line. (Scrolling with SHIFT scrolls horizontally.) - -The "mac" port provides smooth, pixel-based, scrolling. This is a very -popular feature. However, there are drawbacks to this method: what -happens if only a fraction of a line is visible at the top of a -window, is the partially visible text considered part of the window or -not? (Technically, what should 'window-start' return.) - -Note: This feature might not be allowed to be implemented until also -implemented in Emacs for a free system. - **** Mouse gestures The "mac" port defines the gestures 'swipe-left/right/up/down', 'magnify-up/down', and 'rotate-left/right'. -It also binds the magnification commands to change the font -size. (This should be not be done in a specific interface, instead -Emacs should do this binding globally.) +The magnify gestures have now been implemented on X11 and NS. The +event is named differently: it is named `pinch', but it does the same +thing. -Note: This feature might not be allowed to be implemented until also -implemented in Emacs for a free system. +Someone needs to figure out what the other gestures do in the Mac +port, implement them on X, and then following that, on NS. **** Synthesize bold fonts |