Re: [Emacs-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r102057: Make all 3 copies of x-select-enable-clipboard have the same doc.

[Dan Nicolaescu]

Adrian Robert <address@hidden> writes:

> Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org> writes:
>
>> 
>> Dan Nicolaescu wrote:
>> 
>> > Last I looked ns-win doesn't have any good reason not to use common-win.
>> >
>> > It duplicates functions (under new names), the only change is using
>> > ns-invocation-args instead of x-invocation-args.
>> 
>> I saw that too. It is all very messy.
>
> ns-win was merged before common-win existed, but when the latter was created,
> only x-win and w32-win were modified to use it.  I think, Dan, this was 
> because
> ns-win was still being cleaned up (partly by me) to better match the other
> terms, is that correct?  So it was just bad timing. 

Quite likely.  Or more like the ns cleanup was never completely finished.

> I haven't looked at the ns-win code in a while so I'm a little hesitant to
> attempt the cleanup now, but if someone wants to try I'm happy to answer
> questions about "why the heck is this thing in there?" etc. and test the
> resulting changes.

You are probably more qualified to do this that anyone else, and have
the advantage of being able to test the changes.
A related cleanup is to merge `command-line-ns-option-alist' in
`command-line-x-option-alist'.