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 2/4] Refactor window-system configuration Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 10:21:34 +0200 Message-ID: <838vluv59t.fsf@gnu.org> References: <4b98eec4a5f68bfcd9233d5e7444de05873225b4.1325166472.git.dancol@dancol.org> <4EFCE9C4.8050908@dancol.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1325233313 30442 80.91.229.12 (30 Dec 2011 08:21:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 08:21:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dann@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Daniel Colascione Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 30 09:21:42 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RgXie-0008JF-U7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Dec 2011 09:21:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45166 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RgXie-0005VZ-00 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Dec 2011 03:21:40 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:57573) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RgXic-0005VU-70 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Dec 2011 03:21:39 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RgXib-0003QN-4R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Dec 2011 03:21:38 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:61047) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RgXiZ-0003Q3-NZ; Fri, 30 Dec 2011 03:21:35 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LX000K00C9LHW00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Fri, 30 Dec 2011 10:21:34 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.126.18.76]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LX000KPSCJXG950@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Fri, 30 Dec 2011 10:21:34 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <4EFCE9C4.8050908@dancol.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.175 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:147031 Archived-At: > Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 14:29:24 -0800 > From: Daniel Colascione > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > My initial revisions actually did exactly what you suggest, but I > realized that the solution was more complex and didn't actually have > any benefit. Can you describe the complexity in this solution? > > Also "TERM" does not look like a good prefix > > in this case, it's meaning might be confused with the TERM environment > > variable (nsterm/w32term/xterm are not that great either, but better not > > propagate the confusion). > > "Term", I think, it pretty clear in the context of Emacs. Using a > different name for the header constant wouldn't change the names of all > the datatypes in that header. It's better to at least be consistently > confusing. > > There's XTERM_HEADER, but this name has other issues. How about WINSYS_HEADER?