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: emacsclient's option decoding code Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 06:18:45 +0200 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1226549944 28341 80.91.229.12 (13 Nov 2008 04:19:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 04:19:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, cyd@stupidchicken.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lennart Borgman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 13 05:20:06 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1L0Tgb-0006Qs-O9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 05:20:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47165 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L0TfT-0004O4-Em for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:18:55 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L0TfO-0004Mf-FN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:18:50 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L0TfM-0004ML-Nv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:18:49 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=60936 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L0TfM-0004MI-Kr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:18:48 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout4.012.net.il ([84.95.2.10]:36013) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L0TfM-0003n2-PR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:18:49 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.i_mtaout4.012.net.il by i_mtaout4.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) id <0KA900M008030Z00@i_mtaout4.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 06:20:28 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.126.205.49]) by i_mtaout4.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) with ESMTPA id <0KA900GFG823VML0@i_mtaout4.012.net.il>; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 06:20:28 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 9.1 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:105625 Archived-At: > Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 02:16:20 +0100 > From: "Lennart Borgman" > Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, Eli Zaretskii , > Stefan Monnier , 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.