Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: rms@gnu.org,  stephen@xemacs.org,  cyd@stupidchicken.com,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2009 12:13:53 -0500
> 
> >     (make-frame `((window-system . nil) (tty . ,tty) (tty-type . ,type) . ,parameters))))
> 
> > Now, what do you want to change exactly, and which part do you want to
> > move to make-frame?
> 
> I think calls to make-frame-on-tty should be replaceable by just
> 
>    (make-frame `((tty . ,tty) (tty-type . ,type) . ,parameters))))
> 
> I.e. the explicit `tty' parameter should be interpreted by make-frame as
> overriding the window-system of the current frame.

I won't object to such a change, but I must say I don't see how that
would be more elegant than the current code in make-frame-on-tty.
Perhaps even less elegant: make-frame-on-tty is a user command, so it
can sustain more ugliness, if user-level considerations justify that.
By contrast, make-frame is a general-purpose infrastructure, and
introducing such conditions into it makes it less general.