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The Mac OS 8/9 code is now part of the standard source distribution of Emacs 21. Although you can obtain the latest version of the source code by anonymous CVS from the Emacs project page, Emacs cannot bootstrap on Mac OS 8/9 so the Lisp files must be compiled on another platform (such as Mac OS X).
Since it contains the compiled Lisp files, you can compile Emacs
from its standard distribution, available from ftp.gnu.org or any of its
mirrors. IMPORTANT: if you un-tar this file using StuffIt
Expander, you must set the radio button in the
Preferences->Cross Platform->Convert text files to Macintosh
format to Never.
Then, follow the instructions in the file :mac:INSTALL
to build it.
Emacs 21 does not run under Mac OS Classic on a machine with more than 256 MB of RAM. The Mac OS X version does not have this restriction.
The SourceForge project mac-emacs has been used to maintain Emacs on Mac OS 8/9. I will not further develop this Mac OS 8/9 version. I will maintain it in the sense that I will test bug fixes I received and incorporate them into the CVS repository.
The mailing lists mac-emacs-devel
and mac-emacs-users have been used to discuss development
and use of Emacs for Mac OS 8/9. Recently it has even been used to
discuss matters concerning Emacs for Mac OS X. Since the Mac OS code
is now part of the standard Emacs distribution, it is more suitable to
use the venues already available to Emacs users and developers of
other platforms. I would like to keep around the Mac OS 8/9 project
at SourceForge for now, so people can find my projects, but phase out
the mailing lists and discussion forums there.
So from now on, to discuss the development of Emacs for Mac OS 8/9
or submit patches and bug fixes, please post to the mailing list
emacs-devel at gnu.org. To request help and
report bugs, please use the methods listed in the following
section.
Read the comp.emacs newsgroup for general information and announcements about Emacs.
Read bug reports and fixes in the gnu.emacs.bug newsgroup. To send a
bug report from Emacs, type M-x report-emacs-bug RET.
Post questions to the gnu.emacs.help newsgroup.
You can send E-mail to me at
or use this
form).
Andrew Choi. August 15, 2002.