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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Eli Zaretskii'" <eliz@gnu.org>, <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: Using the same custom file in two different OSes
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 08:57:41 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <B631334DEB33487EA3B8F43E9CE29078@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <834nif93ed.fsf@gnu.org>

> > `window-system' has the advantage that it works with older 
> > Emacs releases.
> 
> Only if you want to support Emacs versions before 21.1.

Fair enough.  However, even in the final Emacs 22 release there are _many_ uses
of `window-sytem' as a predicate in the Gnu Emacs source code, even though
`display-graphic-p' was introduced two releases before that.

Heck, even in the latest Gnu Emacs development source code, to be Emacs 24.3,
there are still many such "deprecated" uses, AFAICT.

Here is a typical one, in dframe.el:

;; On a terminal, raise the frame or the user will
;; be confused.
(if (not window-system)
    (select-frame (symbol-value frame-var)))

In case you think dframe.el is a bit exotic, see the basic libraries faces.el
and frame.el, where there are also several such uses.

And frame.el is the very file where `display-graphic-p' is *defined*.  It is
called only 3 times in that file, while `window-system' seems to be used there
as a predicate 7 times.

Nobody's perfect, of course.




  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-17 16:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-13 22:00 Using the same custom file in two different OSes Dani Moncayo
2013-01-13 22:18 ` Drew Adams
2013-01-14 18:46   ` Dani Moncayo
2013-01-14 19:13     ` Drew Adams
2013-01-14 19:42       ` Dani Moncayo
2013-01-14 21:55         ` Peter Dyballa
2013-01-14 23:00           ` Dani Moncayo
2013-01-15  8:25             ` Didier Verna
2013-01-15  8:42               ` Dani Moncayo
2013-01-14 22:05         ` Drew Adams
2013-01-16 21:03           ` Dani Moncayo
     [not found]           ` <mailman.17633.1358371586.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-01-17  8:43             ` Sebastien Vauban
2013-01-17 14:19               ` Drew Adams
2013-01-17 14:38                 ` Peter Dyballa
2013-01-17 15:22                   ` Dani Moncayo
2013-01-17 16:38                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-17 16:01                   ` Drew Adams
2013-01-17 16:33                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-17 16:32                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-17 16:57                   ` Drew Adams [this message]
2013-01-17 17:48                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-17 18:15                       ` Drew Adams
2013-01-17 18:44                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-15 13:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-15 20:27   ` Dani Moncayo
     [not found]   ` <mailman.17532.1358281671.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-01-16  8:58     ` Sebastien Vauban
2013-01-16 20:35       ` Dani Moncayo
2013-01-16 12:59     ` Jason Rumney

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