On 8/7/12 9:40 AM, Drew Adams wrote:
>> 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.

We use WINDOWSNT in the C source, we might as well use 'windowsnt on
the Lisp side. I'd thought 'nt would be a decent-enough shorthand for
'windowsnt.