From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: dancol@dancol.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/9] Rename `w32' local to `nt' for clarity
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2012 19:31:07 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <831ujihdf8.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv1ujilndr.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
> Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2012 11:45:08 -0400
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> > - (w32 (eq system-type 'windows-nt))
> > + (nt (eq system-type 'windows-nt))
>
> I do see that we now have a problem where w32 can refer either to "using
> the w32 API for things like process and file system operations" and
> "using the w32 GUI".
It's just a local variable, so I really don't see the problem with it.
> But "nt" doesn't sound too good for the first.
> Maybe "w32os"?
How about "windows" or "ms-windows"? w32os is misleading, or will be,
once Emacs could be built as a 64-bit process.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-07 16:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-07 8:19 [PATCH 0/9] Support Win32 GUI in Cygwin Emacs Daniel Colascione
2012-08-07 8:19 ` [PATCH 5/9] Prevent crash if w32 used before it's initialized Daniel Colascione
2012-08-07 17:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-07 17:28 ` Daniel Colascione
2012-08-07 18:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-07 8:19 ` [PATCH 6/9] Rename `w32' local to `nt' for clarity Daniel Colascione
2012-08-07 10:49 ` Lennart Borgman
2012-08-07 15:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-08-07 16:31 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2012-08-07 16:40 ` Drew Adams
2012-08-07 17:07 ` Daniel Colascione
2012-08-07 20:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-08-08 2:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-07 8:19 ` [PATCH 2/9] Refactor window-system configuration Daniel Colascione
2012-08-07 17:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-07 17:31 ` Daniel Colascione
2012-08-07 20:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-08-07 8:19 ` [PATCH 9/9] Detect window-system from display name Daniel Colascione
2012-08-07 15:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-08-07 17:09 ` Daniel Colascione
2012-08-07 20:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-08-07 20:19 ` Daniel Colascione
2012-08-07 22:52 ` Lennart Borgman
2012-08-07 22:54 ` Daniel Colascione
2012-08-07 23:02 ` Lennart Borgman
2012-08-07 18:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-07 20:28 ` Daniel Colascione
2012-08-08 16:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-07 8:19 ` [PATCH 7/9] Add alt_display to emacsclient for w32, ns Daniel Colascione
2012-08-07 15:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-08-07 8:19 ` [PATCH 1/9] Under Remote Desktop, NUMCOLORS is unreliable; workaround Daniel Colascione
2012-08-07 17:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-07 8:19 ` [PATCH 3/9] Implement cygw32 Daniel Colascione
2012-08-07 15:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-08-07 18:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-07 20:11 ` Daniel Colascione
2012-08-08 17:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-07 8:19 ` [PATCH 4/9] Fix emacsclient to work with cygw32 Daniel Colascione
2012-08-07 18:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-07 20:16 ` Daniel Colascione
2012-08-08 2:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-07 8:19 ` [PATCH 8/9] Generalize fork+exec logic, add DAEMON_MUST_EXEC Daniel Colascione
2012-08-07 17:22 ` [PATCH 0/9] Support Win32 GUI in Cygwin Emacs Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-07 17:29 ` Daniel Colascione
2012-08-07 18:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-07 19:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-07 20:15 ` Daniel Colascione
2012-08-07 20:24 ` Juanma Barranquero
2012-08-08 2:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-08 2:33 ` Daniel Colascione
2012-08-08 3:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
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