> Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 19:55:13 +0200 > From: Lennart Borgman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Emacs Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org> > > I can for sure be more specific. Paper size on w32 must be fetched from > the windows Registry because it is stored there. All major applications > on w32 I know of does this.
Here's one plan to attack and solve this problem: Step 1: Design a Lisp-level API for using the paper size. This API should be useful on all supported platforms. If necessary, discuss the design here and implement any corrections/suggestions. Step 2: Implement the API support for the w32 port. If that needs to read the Registry, do that in w32-specific files. (Jason already said, and I agree, that this doesn't require a general-purpose facility to read the Registry. In fact, Emacs already does read the Registry in several places without having such a GP facility.) Step 3: Ask experts for other platforms to implement the same functionality for their configurations. Better yet, if you have enough knowledge and/or help from those experts, implement it yourself, as part of adding this new API. If the functionality is useful, I don't see why this plan would fail or be met with resistance. Do you? _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
