From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, cyd@stupidchicken.com,
monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacsclient's option decoding code
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 06:18:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <u4p2cp8be.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e01d8a50811121716i46166966l2fdc659a3ee03de@mail.gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 02:16:20 +0100
> From: "Lennart Borgman" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
> Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> I do not understand this discussion at all, but is there anything
> preventing using a value that has the string "w32" in it instead of
> just ":0.0"?
Yes: it has all of the disadvantages of ":0.0" and none of the
advantages.
The issue is not whether the string is understandable by humans, the
issue is whether existing Lisp code will live with the string better.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-13 4:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 67+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-01 14:04 emacsclient's option decoding code Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-02 2:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-02 21:45 ` Chong Yidong
2008-11-02 22:00 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-11-02 23:18 ` Chong Yidong
2008-11-03 0:50 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-11-03 4:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-03 12:12 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-11-03 20:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-03 20:19 ` Chong Yidong
2008-11-04 4:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-04 16:40 ` Chong Yidong
2008-11-06 11:56 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-11-03 21:26 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-11-04 4:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-06 12:08 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-11-07 9:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-07 11:42 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-11-07 11:47 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-11-07 14:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-07 14:42 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-11-10 18:22 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-11-10 18:36 ` Chong Yidong
2008-11-10 23:33 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-11-11 4:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-11 4:14 ` Chong Yidong
2008-11-11 21:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-11 9:39 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-11-11 15:37 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-11-11 21:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-11 23:36 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-11-12 4:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-12 9:41 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-11-12 19:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-12 21:05 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-11-13 4:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-13 8:34 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-11-12 19:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-12 2:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-12 9:33 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-11-12 15:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-12 16:37 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-11-12 17:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-13 1:16 ` Lennart Borgman
2008-11-13 4:18 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2008-11-13 9:00 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-11-13 15:45 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-11-13 16:05 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-11-13 16:05 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-11-13 16:08 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-11-12 19:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-12 20:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-13 4:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-13 4:29 ` mail
2008-11-13 20:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-13 21:27 ` mail
2008-11-13 22:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-13 23:54 ` mail
2008-11-13 20:03 ` Juri Linkov
2008-11-13 20:40 ` mail
2008-11-13 21:08 ` Thorsten Bonow
2008-11-13 22:01 ` Thorsten Bonow
2008-11-15 2:58 ` Evil Boris
2008-11-07 14:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-03 14:45 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-11-03 19:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-03 20:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
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