From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov@yandex.ru>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] window-system-version function
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 14:41:19 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvmxbqk2go.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EC2934C.1030206@yandex.ru> (Dmitry Antipov's message of "Tue, 15 Nov 2011 20:29:00 +0400")
> This patch replaces global variable 'window-system-version' with the function
> which returns the window system version for the specified frame. I believe
> this is more reasonable, at least for the configuration which allows both
> TTY and X frames.
Sounds OK, tho it will have to wait for 24.2.
> P.S. Are there the reasons to have both 'window-system' variable and function
> (except the possible backward compatibility with an old Lisp code)?
Backward compatibility: the window-system variable is used in a lot of
Elisp packages, and many more ~/.emacs files, so we're probably stuck
with it for the foreseeable future.
Stefan
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2011-11-15 16:29 [PATCH] window-system-version function Dmitry Antipov
2011-11-20 19:41 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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