bug#28307: 23.4; emacs (23) menu bar fails to display choices on Mac OSX Sierra

[Gary Mamon]

I upgraded to Mac OSX Sierra this week, and I just noticed that the
menu bar items fails to open with GNU Emacs 23.4 (9.0), except for the
apple menu and the menu of the app itself (the Help menu displays a simple
search box [this may be normal]). 

For example, in Emacs, menu items File and Edit do not open. This is

the case for all files I edit, and occurs even when I move elsewhere my

.emacs initialization file before opening emacs (with "open -a emacs”

from the Terminal). The other apps on the Mac do not suffer from this problem.

Is there any way to restore the menu bar functionality in GNU Emacs 23? 

I'd rather not upgrade to version 24 or 25, because I had noticed that

version 24 does not handle correctly the syntax rules in the language in

which I program (sm, aka SuperMongo).

thanks

Gary Mamon

In GNU Emacs 23.4.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin, NS apple-appkit-1038.36)
of 2012-01-29 on bob.porkrind.org
Windowing system distributor `Apple', version 10.3.1504
configured using `configure  '--host=x86_64-apple-darwin' '--build=i686-apple-darwin' '--with-ns' 'build_alias=i686-apple-darwin' 'host_alias=x86_64-apple-darwin' 'CC=gcc -mmacosx-version-min=10.5''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: nil
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: nil
  default enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Fundamental

Minor modes in effect:
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> <escape> x e m
a c s - b SPC <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace>
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace>
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace>
<backspace> <backspace> b u g <tab> <tab> <backspace>
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace>
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace>
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> r e p o r <tab>
<return>

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