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Re: [PATCH 6/9] Rename `w32' local to `nt' for clarity


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/9] Rename `w32' local to `nt' for clarity
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2012 19:31:07 +0300

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2012 11:45:08 -0400
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> > -      (w32 (eq system-type 'windows-nt))
> > +      (nt (eq system-type 'windows-nt))
> 
> I do see that we now have a problem where w32 can refer either to "using
> the w32 API for things like process and file system operations" and
> "using the w32 GUI".

It's just a local variable, so I really don't see the problem with it.

> But "nt" doesn't sound too good for the first.
> Maybe "w32os"?

How about "windows" or "ms-windows"?  w32os is misleading, or will be,
once Emacs could be built as a 64-bit process.



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