[OS X Emacs] Re: Switching from Carbon Emacs to Emacs.app

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 11.01.2008 um 20:42 schrieb Nathaniel Cunningham:

> I have found it handy to use the RCEnvironment preference pane (
> http://www.rubicode.com/Software/RCEnvironment/ ) to edit
> environment.plist .

You can also use Apple's Property List Editor from the Developer  
Tools metapackage (the open or a double-click will load the file). Or  
PrefSetter (http://homepage.mac.com/darkshadow02/ 
apps.htm#prefsetter). Or GNU Emacs:

(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.plist\\'" . visit-bplist))
(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.nib\\'" . visit-bplist))
(defvar plist-converted-binary nil
   "Buffer local variable indicating if file came from binary-plist.")
(make-variable-buffer-local 'plist-converted-binary)

(defun visit-bplist ()
   (interactive)
   (when (string-match "^bplist" (buffer-string))
     (message "Reading in binary plist")
     (shell-command-on-region
      (point-min) (point-max)
      (format "plutil -convert xml1 -o /dev/stdout %s"
	     (shell-quote-argument (buffer-file-name))) t t)
     (save-excursion
       (goto-char (point-max)) (previous-line 1)
       (if (looking-at "/dev/stdout: Operation not supported") (kill- 
line 1)))
     (xml-mode)
     (set-buffer-modified-p nil)
     (setq buffer-undo-list nil)
     (setq plist-converted-binary t)))

(defadvice save-buffer (after convert-plist (&optional args))
   (when plist-converted-binary
     (shell-command
      (format "plutil -convert binary1 %s"
	     (shell-quote-argument (buffer-file-name))) nil nil)
     (message "Wrote bplist %s" (buffer-file-name))))
(ad-activate 'save-buffer)

This code also works with binary PLIST (property list) files in ~/ 
Library/Preferences. It's not my code, I found it somewhere ... A bit  
of fontification would be fine. RCEnvironment is nice Preferences  
Pane, anyway.


 From the command line one can use defaults. Or the PLTools (http:// 
www.macorchard.com/PLTools/).

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   Pete

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