From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Nicolaescu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r101633: Add fd handling with callbacks to select, dbus needs it for async operation. Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 06:33:24 -0400 Message-ID: References: <4C9FB21E.209@swipnet.se> <83k4m8qi8q.fsf@gnu.org> <4CA039F3.1050102@swipnet.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1285583616 24689 80.91.229.12 (27 Sep 2010 10:33:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 10:33:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dj=E4rv?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 27 12:33:34 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P0B1a-0005aT-Em for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Sep 2010 12:33:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37359 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P0B1Z-0007cE-S1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Sep 2010 06:33:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=57466 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P0B1S-0007c9-Rd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Sep 2010 06:33:27 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P0B1R-0007V0-1O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Sep 2010 06:33:26 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:60543) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P0B1Q-0007Uw-V7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Sep 2010 06:33:25 -0400 Original-Received: from dann by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P0B1Q-000745-55; Mon, 27 Sep 2010 06:33:24 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4CA039F3.1050102@swipnet.se> ("Jan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dj=E4rv=22?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?'s?= message of "Mon\, 27 Sep 2010 08\:30\:11 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:130987 Archived-At: Jan Dj=E4rv writes: > 2010-09-26 23:59, Eli Zaretskii skrev: >>> Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 22:50:38 +0200 >>> From: Jan Dj=E4rv >>> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org >>> >>> I wish define:s would say what they are about. >> >> It's never too late to start documenting them (or change their names >> to something self-explanatory, for that matter, if it's possible). >> > > This case may be simple, but what does subprocesses (for exampe) mean? It currently means !MSDOS. IMO we should just get rid of it and replace it with !MSDOS in order to sim= plify the code. The probability that there would be a need to port the current emacs to an OS that does not have subprocess support is very close to zero (or zero).