Eli Zaretskii wrote:
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?
This is very good and I have hoped for this type of suggestions ever
since I joined here.
I might disagree to whether there should be a general facility to
reading the Registry, but that is a minor point right now. Just as I
guess you and Jason think there is a possibility that such a facility is
misused and w32 only solutions are developed. I believe however that
they can easily be converted to cross platform solutions and that they
might help in fact help GNU/Linux by pushing the needs for common access
of certain things. (But I do not know GNU/Linux sufficiently well. This
is just a guess and I would welcome corrections.)
Unfortunately I do not know how to do this on other platform. I will
come back with a suggestion for an interface, if no one does suggest a
posix style solution before me (which would be very nice!).
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