[OS X Emacs] dialog box issues - known problems?
Michael Gilbert
mcg at gilbert.org
Tue Aug 11 16:42:06 EDT 2009
>> Yes, that was why I was asking. This was not a complaint. I wish to
>> contribute to the process in a constructive manner. So, I was
>> trying to find out if these are known and documented issues. I
>> thought perhaps someone on this list might know.
>
> The best place to look right now is http://
> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com and search for bugs in general or in
> package "ns" (which is Nextstep == Cocoa).
Thank you for pointing me there. I want to participate constructively,
but I am utterly new here. I will poke around there.
> Emacs 23.1 Nextstep (Cocoa) is not stable and reliable yet; this is
> documented in etc/NEWS. It really needs work. E.g., it crashes in
> its event loop quite often for me, but it's not reproducible.
*nod* THAT I knew, though it's been amazingly stable for me.
> The best way to help with the development is to figure out why (in
> the code!) bugs occur and then describe the solution, either
> verbally or by writing a patch. Reporting bugs with all information
> needed to reproduce is a minimal first step, but it is not very
> effective when there are not enough people actually dealing with the
> reports. So: debug and write more code.
I would love to contribute code, but I'm neither a Cocoa/Objective C
nor Lisp developer. I do know how to write up useful bug reports, but
it sounds like you're telling me that I really shouldn't bother unless
I can fix them myself. Am I hearing you right? I want to respect the
norms of the development community here.
-- M
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