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

[Lennart Borgman]

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!).