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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




  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
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-12-27 18:16 Eli Zaretskii

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