> I'm not sure what it's trying to achieve specifically, but I don't see
> anything obviously wrong with it.

The patch seeks to enable the alpha_background frame parameter for
MacOS (and NS). Presently, that frame parameter does nothing on MacOS.
Similar to the alpha frame parameter, this should enable transparency
but not change the transparency of any text.

> > - It causes a merge conflict in nsterm.m.
> > - It won't compile as is, since it contains one instance of garbled code
> >   (variable name split over two lines).

Attached is an updated patch. I compiled it today on the Master branch
so it should work. Not sure what happened in the old one but it had
lost a } and split at an odd spot.

-- 
Jon Rubens