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: [PATCH 6/9] Rename `w32' local to `nt' for clarity Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2012 19:31:07 +0300 Message-ID: <831ujihdf8.fsf@gnu.org> References: <440e43a6bda12b5a329d84ceaf7bc33251ec9701.1344326992.git.dancol@dancol.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1344357098 16929 80.91.229.3 (7 Aug 2012 16:31:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2012 16:31:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dancol@dancol.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 07 18:31:36 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 1Symgn-0005Lb-Ep for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2012 18:31:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44571 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Symgm-00076g-IE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2012 12:31:24 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:54082) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Symgd-00073I-E9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2012 12:31:23 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SymgY-0003ig-EJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2012 12:31:15 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:57425) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SymgY-0003i9-6x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2012 12:31:10 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0M8E005008IA6800@a-mtaout21.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2012 19:31:08 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0M8E004RR8JVYNC0@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Tue, 07 Aug 2012 19:31:08 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.169 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:152258 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > 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.