From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 23:48:19 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87zlies8wo.fsf@xemacs.org> <200812310220.mBV2KWv4001309@mothra.ics.uci.edu> <200812312139.mBVLdSUA005626@mothra.ics.uci.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1230760128 15823 80.91.229.12 (31 Dec 2008 21:48:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 21:48:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, stephen@xemacs.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, rms@gnu.org To: Dan Nicolaescu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 31 22:49:55 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LI8wo-0001S9-RL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 Dec 2008 22:49:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56890 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LI8va-0002CM-S8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:48:34 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LI8vX-0002CG-Am for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:48:31 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LI8vV-0002C4-3j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:48:30 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=48594 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LI8vU-0002C1-Vf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:48:28 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout3.012.net.il ([84.95.2.7]:55055) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LI8vN-0000GQ-Op; Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:48:22 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.i_mtaout3.012.net.il by i_mtaout3.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) id <0KCR00200GK2UD00@i_mtaout3.012.net.il>; Wed, 31 Dec 2008 23:50:59 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.127.220.202]) by i_mtaout3.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) with ESMTPA id <0KCR00CWXGOYBE20@i_mtaout3.012.net.il>; Wed, 31 Dec 2008 23:50:59 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <200812312139.mBVLdSUA005626@mothra.ics.uci.edu> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 9.1 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:107481 Archived-At: > Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 13:39:28 -0800 (PST) > From: Dan Nicolaescu > Cc: Stefan Monnier , rms@gnu.org, > cyd@stupidchicken.com, stephen@xemacs.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > For example, make-frame-on-tty does make sense on MS-DOS when its > > first arg is "/dev/tty" or "CON", so I didn't want it to fail just > > because it assumed that on a tty, the value of window-system _must_ be > > nil. > > Then it would be better to just push the test inside the `window-system' > form, rather that duplicate the whole call. I don't mind making that change. > there's a single user (in server.el) in the tree... But that's true for many (most?) of the multi-tty features, isn't it?