From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Wiegley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: `eshell-under-cygwin-p' etc. inappropriate? Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2002 13:28:13 -0700 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <87bs8fn34y.fsf@alice.dynodns.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1028665709 6065 127.0.0.1 (6 Aug 2002 20:28:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 20:28:29 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17cAwO-0001Zi-00 for ; Tue, 06 Aug 2002 22:28:28 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17cBHf-0000c2-00 for ; Tue, 06 Aug 2002 22:50:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17cAwz-0003qo-00; Tue, 06 Aug 2002 16:29:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.gci-net.com ([216.183.68.100] helo=gci-net.com) by fencepost.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17cAwD-0003jj-00 for ; Tue, 06 Aug 2002 16:28:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [216.183.69.139] (HELO aris) by gci-net.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.5.9) with ESMTP-TLS id 6474068 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Aug 2002 13:19:59 -0700 Original-Received: from johnw by aris with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17cAw9-0000Ud-00 for ; Tue, 06 Aug 2002 13:28:13 -0700 Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Home-Page: http://www.gci-net.com/users/j/johnw/ X-Public-Key: http://pgp5.ai.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xF40524D0 In-Reply-To: (John Paul Wallington's message of "Tue, 06 Aug 2002 10:24:03 +0100") Original-Lines: 22 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) Emacs/21.2 (i386-debian-linux-gnu) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:6318 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:6318 >>>>> On Tue Aug 6, John writes: > This was a patch I suggested for the eshell XEmacs package. I'm not > certain it is appropriate for XEmacs, but I don't think it should > have been installed in Emacs. I thought it had been rejected, > rightly. That's odd; I thought we had agreed to check them in. Why should the XEmacs version diverge from Emacs? Emacs runs under cygwin also. > Furthermore, `eshell-under-cygwin-p' is a misleading name: it should > probably be `eshell-under-xemacs-cygwin-p' or similar. Why? > I don't understand why these changes were installed now, four months > after they were suggested. If you want them removed, I will remove them. It's been four months because that's how long it's taken me to get back to my Emacs work. John