Re: Be prepared for "code clean-up" in CVS head

["Jan D." <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>]

> I don't intend to make a lot of changes to identify and merge
> duplicate code, but I will at least merge the code and definitions
> that are related to the changes I'm going to make to facilitate the
> "fringe/margin swap" and the per-window configurations.

There is a lot of duplication between macmenu.c, w32menu.c and xmenu.c
There are many functions in all three that deals with taking apart
a menu specification, allocating menu entries and walking through
Lisp structures that are line by line identical.  There is not a
line of GUI code in them.

> On a closely related matter, it seems that some corners of the code
> _could_ work with multiple GUI output devices, e.g. W32 and X, but
> many parts of the code definitely does not support that, particularly
> much of the code ported to W32 and MAC uses the X-specific names of
> both functions and #defines, and they also defines structs and types
> to match the X-specific names...  So it is hard for me to see how
> they can co-exist without a really MAJOR cleanup.
>
> If we decide that we DO NOT want to support such cross-GUI hybrids, a
> lot more of the duplicate code could be cleaned up.

I think this might be a lot of work, and it is of course harder to
maintain each port independently.

> I don't really care whether such cross-GUI hybrids is possible, but I
> do care about making emacs easier to maintain -- and the current code
> duplication is a major hazzle in that respect.  So if we decide not to
> support the cross-GUI hybrids, I think I can cleanup a good deal more
> of (almost) duplicated code.

Just getting rid of duplication of non-GUI related code would be
a major step forward.

About code cleanup, how about removing the pure X (i.e. not Xt, not GTK)
parts?  That would not reduce the duplication but would remove a lot
of #ifdef:s.  Is there a configuration that has X but not Xt?

	Jan D.