From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daniel Colascione Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/9] Rename `w32' local to `nt' for clarity Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2012 10:07:26 -0700 Message-ID: <50214B4E.5010403@dancol.org> References: <440e43a6bda12b5a329d84ceaf7bc33251ec9701.1344326992.git.dancol@dancol.org> <831ujihdf8.fsf@gnu.org> <09F735503DB949B6BFBC7F8F029BD928@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig37999D3ECD977DF09D660047" X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1344359267 3306 80.91.229.3 (7 Aug 2012 17:07:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2012 17:07:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 'Eli Zaretskii' , 'Stefan Monnier' , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 07 19:07:46 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SynFx-0007xx-Ec for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2012 19:07:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47031 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SynFw-00086z-IS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2012 13:07:44 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:32842) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SynFu-00086t-1b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2012 13:07:42 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SynFt-0000mj-0c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2012 13:07:41 -0400 Original-Received: from dancol.org ([96.126.100.184]:38270) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SynFq-0000mT-Ue; Tue, 07 Aug 2012 13:07:39 -0400 Original-Received: from c-76-22-66-162.hsd1.wa.comcast.net ([76.22.66.162] helo=[192.168.1.2]) by dancol.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SynFp-0007Xr-UT; Tue, 07 Aug 2012 10:07:37 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120713 Thunderbird/14.0 In-Reply-To: <09F735503DB949B6BFBC7F8F029BD928@us.oracle.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.3 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 96.126.100.184 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:152264 Archived-At: This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig37999D3ECD977DF09D660047 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 8/7/12 9:40 AM, Drew Adams wrote: >> How about "windows" or "ms-windows"? w32os is misleading, or will be,= >> once Emacs could be built as a 64-bit process. >=20 > FWIW, I vote against just "windows" because of possible confusion with = other > meanings of "window". Yes, I understand that the context probably disp= els > confusion here. Still, it's a good idea to avoid it consistently (and = to > facilitate searching etc.). >=20 > "ms-windows" is pretty clear. But if you also sometimes need something= shorter > and not 32/64-specific as a replacement for "w32", try "msw" or some su= ch. > Whatever you choose, please use it consistently throughout Emacs. We use WINDOWSNT in the C source, we might as well use 'windowsnt on the Lisp side. I'd thought 'nt would be a decent-enough shorthand for 'windowsnt. --------------enig37999D3ECD977DF09D660047 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iEYEARECAAYFAlAhS1gACgkQ17c2LVA10Vtl9wCgi9NRdxdCsXv+VjOxwxWZYLZ+ 0AcAn0KtszWgkmvznEtoVmAnN8p2oV3b =pZUc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig37999D3ECD977DF09D660047--