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From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: window-system-version on Windows
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2008 12:56:51 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87iqpznukc.fsf@xemacs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ubpvrofx0.fsf@gnu.org>

Eli Zaretskii writes:

 > > > The 3rd version of the native Windows GUI for Emacs?  You can
 > > > see that it's 11 for the X11 GUI.
 > > 
 > > Yeah, but for example mule-diags concatenates window-system and
 > > window-system-version to form "x11". On Windows it outputs
 > > "Window-system: w323", which is quite meaningless.
 > 
 > That'd be a bug, I'd say.  How about "x, version 11" instead?

"X11" is the standard way to refer to "The X Window System, version
11".  "x11" case-mangled but interpretable; "x, version 11" causes me
to double-take.

There are political reasons for not using Win32 like everybody else
does, I know, but why let that screw up a perfectly good custom for a
free windowing system?

Also, you phrase "3rd version ... for Emacs" is somewhat ambiguous,
but I'd take that as "the third try at a Windows GUI by the Emacs
project", not as "Microsoft's third version".  OTOH, "X11" most
definitely means "version 11 as defined by the MIT/X Consortium".




  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-05  3:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-04 11:21 window-system-version on Windows Juanma Barranquero
2008-12-04 19:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-12-04 19:58   ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-12-04 20:15     ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-12-05  3:56       ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
2008-12-05  4:25         ` jasonr
2008-12-05  9:55           ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-12-05  9:54         ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-12-05 11:23           ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-12-05 20:17             ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-12-06  4:52               ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-12-06  9:38                 ` Juanma Barranquero

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