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 20:47:50 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87zlies8wo.fsf@xemacs.org> <200812310220.mBV2KWv4001309@mothra.ics.uci.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1230749291 17633 80.91.229.12 (31 Dec 2008 18:48:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:48:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: stephen@xemacs.org, cyd@stupidchicken.com, dann@ics.uci.edu, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 31 19:49:17 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 1LI684-0007rj-CY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:49:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57275 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LI66q-0003Xu-Gy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 Dec 2008 13:48:00 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LI66l-0003Xk-T2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Dec 2008 13:47:55 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LI66k-0003XY-B4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Dec 2008 13:47:54 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40087 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LI66k-0003XV-5z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Dec 2008 13:47:54 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout1.012.net.il ([84.95.2.1]:58159) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LI66i-0001UZ-2q; Wed, 31 Dec 2008 13:47:52 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.i-mtaout1.012.net.il by i-mtaout1.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0KCR00A007ROEJ00@i-mtaout1.012.net.il>; Wed, 31 Dec 2008 20:50:29 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.127.220.202]) by i-mtaout1.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0KCR008RG8C4BH10@i-mtaout1.012.net.il>; Wed, 31 Dec 2008 20:50:29 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: 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:107473 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Cc: dann@ics.uci.edu, rms@gnu.org, cyd@stupidchicken.com, stephen@xemacs.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 01:25:15 -0500 > > >> BTW, what's up with the test (eq window-system 'pc) in > >> make-frame-on-tty? Does it really do something useful? > > > Yes: it makes the function work on MS-DOS. > > You mean the MS-DOS port supports multiple "tty"s? Yes, in the sense that all the APIs introduced by multi-tty do work in the MS-DOS port if they make sense on DOS. 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.