From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.tangents Subject: RE: The xwidget branch origin story Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 11:31:59 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1448047943 15332 80.91.229.3 (20 Nov 2015 19:32:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 19:32:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-tangents@gnu.org To: John Wiegley , joakim@verona.se Original-X-From: emacs-tangents-bounces+get-emacs-tangents=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 20 20:32:11 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: get-emacs-tangents@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZzrPm-00032e-LS for get-emacs-tangents@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Nov 2015 20:32:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49527 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZzrPl-0000L0-Qw for get-emacs-tangents@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Nov 2015 14:32:09 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51732) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZzrPk-0000Kn-1W for emacs-tangents@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Nov 2015 14:32:08 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZzrPg-0000d3-ST for emacs-tangents@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Nov 2015 14:32:07 -0500 Original-Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:29155) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZzrPg-0000cl-KX for emacs-tangents@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Nov 2015 14:32:04 -0500 Original-Received: from aserv0022.oracle.com (aserv0022.oracle.com [141.146.126.234]) by userp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id tAKJW1FV009936 (version=TLSv1 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Fri, 20 Nov 2015 19:32:02 GMT Original-Received: from userv0121.oracle.com (userv0121.oracle.com [156.151.31.72]) by aserv0022.oracle.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id tAKJW1AB019228 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL); Fri, 20 Nov 2015 19:32:01 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0015.oracle.com (abhmp0015.oracle.com [141.146.116.21]) by userv0121.oracle.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id tAKJW0vN019905; Fri, 20 Nov 2015 19:32:00 GMT In-Reply-To: X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.9 (901082) [OL 12.0.6691.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: aserv0022.oracle.com [141.146.126.234] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 156.151.31.81 X-BeenThere: emacs-tangents@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-tangents-bounces+get-emacs-tangents=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-tangents-bounces+get-emacs-tangents=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.tangents:18 Archived-At: > > Another thing that gets asked a lot is the xwidget name. I just combine= d > > 'x' meaning any, and widget, thus xwidget. I needed a prefix in the cod= e. > > In retrospect the name wasn't very descriptive, because people believe = that > > the branch is only meant for X windows, which it isn't, even if I only = have > > tested it there. >=20 > Thanks for the background history, Joakim! And yes, until I read this, I > had thought it was only for X11 as well. :) Why not rename it? Emacs Lisp has stuff that uses the prefix `x-', and at least originally, that stuff had to do with X Window. Most of it has been renamed to drop the `x-'. Since `xwidget' is misleading people, and the `x' doesn't help in any way, please just rename it. But we also already have Emacs code concerning widgets, so maybe try to come up with a name that is specific to these particular widgets or their use.