From: jasonr@f2s.com
To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
Cc: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>,
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: window-system-version on Windows
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 04:25:24 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1228451124.4938ad347d50d@webmail.freedom2surf.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87iqpznukc.fsf@xemacs.org>
Quoting "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>:
> There are political reasons for not using Win32 like everybody else
> does, I know, but why let that screw up a perfectly good custom for a
> free windowing system?
Renaming from w32 to Win32 would not solve this, so I don't know why you even
bring this up.
> Also, you phrase "3rd version ... for Emacs" is somewhat ambiguous,
> but I'd take that as "the third try at a Windows GUI by the Emacs
> project", not as "Microsoft's third version".
I think the 3 refers to the major version of NT 3.1 which is what this port of
Emacs was originally written for. All these hardcoded constants to satisfy old
X specific window system informational functions date from the original port by
Microsoft interns.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-05 4:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-04 11:21 window-system-version on Windows Juanma Barranquero
2008-12-04 19:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-12-04 19:58 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-12-04 20:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-12-05 3:56 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-12-05 4:25 ` jasonr [this message]
2008-12-05 9:55 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-12-05 9:54 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-12-05 11:23 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-12-05 20:17 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-12-06 4:52 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-12-06 9:38 ` Juanma Barranquero
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