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] Override Windows default Win-* key combinations when using Emacs Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2016 17:50:23 +0200 Message-ID: <83wppoal6o.fsf@gnu.org> References: <568BBC58.50702@aprikoodi.fi> <83y4c43qkh.fsf@gnu.org> <5691667C.5000009@aprikoodi.fi> <838u3wkkvb.fsf@gnu.org> <5694E07E.8010005@aprikoodi.fi> <83fuy2kd2w.fsf@gnu.org> <56961607.2090504@aprikoodi.fi> <569634D6.6030404@aprikoodi.fi> <83oacpiial.fsf@gnu.org> <5697995B.5010306@aprikoodi.fi> <83mvs8gh7n.fsf@gnu.org> <83vb6tethb.fsf@gnu.org> <569A22D3.7070208@aprikoodi.fi> <56B207C0.3030304@aprikoodi.fi> <83mvrhyf4c.fsf@gnu.org> <838u27eo5p.fsf@gnu.org> <56D03005.3070809@aprikoodi.fi> <831t7ycrow.fsf@gnu.org> <56D2B300.80700@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1456674652 17246 80.91.229.3 (28 Feb 2016 15:50:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2016 15:50:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jussi@aprikoodi.fi, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 28 16:50:51 2016 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 1aa3cR-00020p-7g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2016 16:50:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59481 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aa3cQ-0004YM-RG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2016 10:50:50 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41833) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aa3cM-0004Y4-Gd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2016 10:50:47 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aa3cI-0000u6-Fr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2016 10:50:46 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:37649) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aa3cI-0000u2-B3; Sun, 28 Feb 2016 10:50:42 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:3221 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aa3cE-0005AC-WF; Sun, 28 Feb 2016 10:50:41 -0500 In-reply-to: <56D2B300.80700@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Sun, 28 Feb 2016 00:42:40 -0800) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:200759 Archived-At: > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: Paul Eggert > Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2016 00:42:40 -0800 > > Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > currently, we don't use getaddrinfo on Windows (because it > > wasn't available before XP). So a useful first step would be to add > > support for getaddrinfo, when it is available. > > It would be easy to the Gnulib getaddrinfo module, which is supposed to add > support for getaddrinfo on MS-Windows platforms that lack it. What would be the point of that? The fallback code is already in Emacs, and it isn't Windows-specific, whereas the test whether getaddrinfo is available is a trivial one-liner.