Re: emacsclient's option decoding code

[Chong Yidong]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

> I find this code highly confusing to the degree of being
> unmaintainable.  Look, for example, how it sets `tty' to zero or
> non-zero, and how this is interleaved with testing whether it is zero
> or non-zero, completely obfuscating the semantics of the code and the
> meaning of each variable.
>
> I think this should be rewritten, but since I cannot make heads or
> tails out of it, I cannot do that myself without risking to break the
> code.  Please someone make this code speak to a programmer.

I did what I could to simplify the code (partly by removing the
redundant variable window_system, partly by adding comments).

Hopefully nothing broke.  My testing indicates no problems.