From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: [PATCH 6/9] Rename `w32' local to `nt' for clarity Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2012 09:40:00 -0700 Message-ID: <09F735503DB949B6BFBC7F8F029BD928@us.oracle.com> References: <440e43a6bda12b5a329d84ceaf7bc33251ec9701.1344326992.git.dancol@dancol.org> <831ujihdf8.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1344357634 21338 80.91.229.3 (7 Aug 2012 16:40:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2012 16:40:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dancol@dancol.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "'Eli Zaretskii'" , "'Stefan Monnier'" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 07 18:40:33 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1Sympa-0000J2-9c for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2012 18:40:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60036 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SympZ-0007r4-Db for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2012 12:40:29 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:58827) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SympW-0007qT-Nf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2012 12:40:27 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SympS-0006js-2v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2012 12:40:26 -0400 Original-Received: from acsinet15.oracle.com ([141.146.126.227]:28256) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SympQ-0006jL-Jb; Tue, 07 Aug 2012 12:40:20 -0400 Original-Received: from acsinet22.oracle.com (acsinet22.oracle.com [141.146.126.238]) by acsinet15.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2) with ESMTP id q77GeAik011342 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Tue, 7 Aug 2012 16:40:11 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt356.oracle.com (acsmt356.oracle.com [141.146.40.156]) by acsinet22.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q77Ge966013471 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 7 Aug 2012 16:40:10 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt101.oracle.com (abhmt101.oracle.com [141.146.116.53]) by acsmt356.oracle.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id q77Ge4IZ014381; Tue, 7 Aug 2012 11:40:06 -0500 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/10.159.219.109) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Tue, 07 Aug 2012 09:40:04 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 Thread-Index: Ac10uhlA5vzEaHoRTKGM8edg147xWwAAFijA In-Reply-To: <831ujihdf8.fsf@gnu.org> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 X-Source-IP: acsinet22.oracle.com [141.146.126.238] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-Received-From: 141.146.126.227 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:152259 Archived-At: > How about "windows" or "ms-windows"? w32os is misleading, or will be, > once Emacs could be built as a 64-bit process. FWIW, I vote against just "windows" because of possible confusion with other meanings of "window". Yes, I understand that the context probably dispels confusion here. Still, it's a good idea to avoid it consistently (and to facilitate searching etc.). "ms-windows" is pretty clear. But if you also sometimes need something shorter and not 32/64-specific as a replacement for "w32", try "msw" or some such. Whatever you choose, please use it consistently throughout Emacs.