From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/9] Rename `w32' local to `nt' for clarity Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2012 11:45:08 -0400 Message-ID: References: <440e43a6bda12b5a329d84ceaf7bc33251ec9701.1344326992.git.dancol@dancol.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1344354330 25018 80.91.229.3 (7 Aug 2012 15:45:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2012 15:45:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Daniel Colascione Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 07 17:45:30 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 1SylyL-0003Cl-0f for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2012 17:45:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48756 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SylyK-0003ZL-6R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2012 11:45:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:58359) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Syly7-0003GH-Ug for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2012 11:45:23 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Syly1-0001Si-RY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2012 11:45:15 -0400 Original-Received: from pruche.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.22]:40782) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Syly1-0001SP-Ny for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2012 11:45:09 -0400 Original-Received: from faina.iro.umontreal.ca (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by pruche.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id q77Fj8qX030394; Tue, 7 Aug 2012 11:45:08 -0400 Original-Received: by faina.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 3042AB4081; Tue, 7 Aug 2012 11:45:08 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <440e43a6bda12b5a329d84ceaf7bc33251ec9701.1344326992.git.dancol@dancol.org> (Daniel Colascione's message of "Tue, 07 Aug 2012 01:19:27 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV4303=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.2.0.9309 : core <4303> : streams <795857> : uri <1186124> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.22 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:152255 Archived-At: > - (w32 (eq system-type 'windows-nt)) > + (nt (eq system-type 'windows-nt)) I do see that we now have a problem where w32 can refer either to "using the w32 API for things like process and file system operations" and "using the w32 GUI". But "nt" doesn't sound too good for the first. Maybe "w32os"? Stefan