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authorAnders Lindgren <andlind@gmail.com>2016-02-24 21:25:09 +0100
committerAnders Lindgren <andlind@gmail.com>2016-02-24 21:25:09 +0100
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Update HISTORY section in readme for the NextStep interface.
* nextstep/README: Update HISTORY after suggestion from former maintainer Adrian Robert.
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@@ -8,10 +8,15 @@ NextStep (NS), including OS X (Mac) and GNUstep, using the Cocoa API.
HISTORY
-Up to Emacs 22, the OS X interface was implemented using the C-based
-Carbon API. Starting with Emacs 23, the interface was rewritten in
-Objective-C using the Cocoa API. Meanwhile, the Carbon interface has
-been maintained independently under the name "mac".
+
+The Nextstep (NS) interface of GNU Emacs was originally written in
+1994 for NeXTSTEP systems running Emacs 19 and subsequently ported to
+OpenStep and then Rhapsody, which became Mac OS X. In 2004 it was
+adapted to GNUstep, a free OpenStep implementation, and in 2008 it was
+merged to the GNU Emacs trunk and released with Emacs 23. Around the
+same time a separate Mac-only port using the Carbon APIs and
+descending from a 2001 MacOS 8/9 port of Emacs 21 was removed. (It
+remains available externally under the name "mac".)
OVERVIEW OF COCOA AND OBJECTIVE-C