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Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives
From: |
Dan Nicolaescu |
Subject: |
Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives |
Date: |
Wed, 31 Dec 2008 13:39:28 -0800 (PST) |
Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> > From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> > Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden,
address@hidden
> > Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 01:25:15 -0500
> >
> > >> BTW, what's up with the test (eq window-system 'pc) in
> > >> make-frame-on-tty? Does it really do something useful?
> >
> > > Yes: it makes the function work on MS-DOS.
> >
> > You mean the MS-DOS port supports multiple "tty"s?
>
> Yes, in the sense that all the APIs introduced by multi-tty do work in
> the MS-DOS port if they make sense on DOS.
>
> For example, make-frame-on-tty does make sense on MS-DOS when its
> first arg is "/dev/tty" or "CON", so I didn't want it to fail just
> because it assumed that on a tty, the value of window-system _must_ be
> nil.
Then it would be better to just push the test inside the `window-system'
form, rather that duplicate the whole call. But IMHO make-frame-on-tty
is not very useful in general, and we would be better off without it,
there's a single user (in server.el) in the tree...
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives, (continued)
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/12/29
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives, Richard M Stallman, 2008/12/29
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/12/29
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives, Richard M Stallman, 2008/12/30
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives, Stefan Monnier, 2008/12/30
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives, Dan Nicolaescu, 2008/12/30
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives, Stefan Monnier, 2008/12/30
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/12/30
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives, Stefan Monnier, 2008/12/31
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/12/31
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives,
Dan Nicolaescu <=
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/12/31
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives, Dan Nicolaescu, 2008/12/31
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/12/31
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives, Dan Nicolaescu, 2008/12/31
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives, Richard M Stallman, 2008/12/31
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives, Stefan Monnier, 2008/12/31
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/12/31
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives, Richard M Stallman, 2008/12/30
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/12/31
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives, Stefan Monnier, 2008/12/31