From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, stephen@xemacs.org, eliz@gnu.org,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:22:44 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvd4f8qn0r.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1LI45t-0005Ih-Kd@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard M. Stallman's message of "Wed, 31 Dec 2008 11:38:53 -0500")
> It seems to be a simple wrapper intended for interactive calling. It
> does not provide much simplification for a caller in Lisp. If it is
> not useful for interactive calling, maybe we should delete it.
That's indeed what I'm thinking: for interactive use, it doesn't seem
tremendously useful (tho I've used it occasionally for debugging
purposes: it allows the use of the multi-tty code without going through
emacsclient and server.el).
> By the way, why does it need the conditional that tests window-system?
> Should the proper handling of window-system be built into `make-frame'
> instead? If it is needed for all frame creation on MSDOG, putting it
> in `make-frame' is best because that way it only needs to be done once
> and callers are all simpler.
My thought exactly,
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-31 17:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-27 18:23 Terminology in multi-tty primitives Eli Zaretskii
2008-12-28 1:00 ` Chong Yidong
2008-12-28 4:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-12-28 4:28 ` Chong Yidong
2008-12-28 19:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-12-28 19:43 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-12-29 5:31 ` Chong Yidong
2008-12-29 19:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-12-29 22:09 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-12-30 2:18 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-12-30 22:26 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-12-31 2:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-12-31 2:20 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-12-31 3:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-12-31 4:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-12-31 6:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-12-31 18:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-12-31 21:39 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-12-31 21:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-12-31 21:55 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-12-31 22:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-12-31 23:03 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-12-31 16:38 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-12-31 17:22 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2008-12-31 19:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-01-01 17:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-01-02 13:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-01-03 2:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-01-03 9:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-01-04 3:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-01-04 3:29 ` Chetan Pandya
2009-01-04 3:41 ` Jason Rumney
2009-01-04 4:54 ` Chetan Pandya
2008-12-30 22:27 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-12-31 5:31 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-12-31 6:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-12-31 8:33 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-12-31 14:18 ` Chong Yidong
2008-12-31 15:42 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-12-28 17:29 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-12-28 19:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-12-30 19:53 ` Stefan Monnier
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2008-12-27 18:16 Eli Zaretskii
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