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["David G. Wonnacott" <address@hidden>]

I've been using the X11 version of TeXmacs from fink happily from some
time, and may try the Cocoa version some time, so thanks for this
information.

I can't speak to the details of specific TeXmacs features, but I have
one thought about the "double-click vs. command-line" issue, based on
my experience running other programs in these ways. Specifically, note
that (as of the last time I checked) the MacOS does _not_ run any of
the usual shell set-up files (e.g. .bashrc) when you log in to the
GUI. This means that things started with double-click will _not_ be
run with, for example, the PATH setting you establish in your .bashrc
(whereas of course anything started from a bash command line will).

There is some _other_ way to define values for environment variables
on MacOS; the descriptions I've seen (and used) involve using a GUI
tool to edit some sort of property list (using Google is probably
better than relying on my memory here, but contact me if you can't
find what you need).

Dave Wonnacott


   Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 20:09:47 +0200
   From: Michael Lachmann <address@hidden>

   Here are just a few comments about the cocoa version of TeXmacs. This
   was installed on OSX using fink (it is version 1.0.7.2). I know that
   the behaviour I'm reporting probably isn't relevant for TeXmacs
   development, but still - if someone tries to use it, it might be
   relevant to them....

   On fink, the cocoa version of TeXmacs is installed in
   /sw/Applications/Texmacs.app

   * For some reason, TeXmacs behaves differently if you double-click on
   the app icon, or you start it from the command line using
   /sw/Applications/TeXmacs.app/Contents/MacOS/TeXmacs
   The command line version works better - you can see included images.
   In the version started by clicking on the app, images appear empty. I
   suspect this is a problem with PATH - finding gs.

   * It seems that dialogs look for the wrong extensions, or specify old
   vs. new file wrongly.


   Thus,
   Opening a file (file->load...) lets me chose a file with extension
   .tm, but it behaves like a "new file" dialog - so if I
   chose an existing file, a dialog comes up saying that the file already
   exists, and asks if I want to overwrite it.

   Insert image only accepts files with the extension ".tm", instead of
   graphics files.


   * Something doesn't work quite right with mouse clicks. Clicking in a
   certain region seems to behave like a double-click or a click-drag.
   Once that happens, it is pretty much impossible to move the cursor
   using the mouse, only with the arrows keys. (But it is very hard to
   use TeXmacs using only arrow keys)

   * Copy and paste works nicely between TeXmacs and OSX. You have to
   chose menu->edit->copy or esc-w, and not edit->copy or apple-c.
   Copying figures doesn't seem to work, yet.