Re: w32 does not have emacsclient/server - getting paper size

[Lennart Borgman]

David Kastrup wrote:

> I am not suggesting any such thing.  I know nothing whatsoever about
> w32 and I consider life too short to change anything about that.
>  
Sorry, I thought you did.

> I have no idea what you are complaining about actually with regard to
> the paper size.  It appears that you are currently in a bad mood and
> can't be bothered describing _any_ problem concretely enough so that
> it would even make sense talking about it.  It is unclear what
> functionality is not implemented on what platforms and for what
> reasons, and why you think that somebody is sabotaging the
> implementation or whatever.
It seems to have been a bad time mention this. The problem here is the 
different architectures between unix like OS:s and w32. If you are not 
interested in w32 then that is ok, but please do not assume that I write 
about intentions (like sabotage).

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. An implementation for accessing Registry on 
w32 was offered some years ago, but was not accepted. It is of course a 
w32 only solution, since the same things are accessed differently on 
unix like OS:es. But it actually in my opinion makes Emacs a bit less 
powerful on w32 that it can not access the registry.

I do not expect you do comment on the details of this. I would however 
hope that you like to see the big picture.