Re: emacsclient's option decoding code

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:41:08 +0100
> From: "Juanma Barranquero" <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 05:22, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > ":0.0", I think.
> 
> If I understand you right, you propose
> 
>  "0.0" for Windows frames
>  ":0.0" for X frames on the default display (when, if ever, they are
> implemented)

No, I meant ":0.0" for Windows as well, I just omitted the colon by
mistake.

But see my other mail in this thread with a somewhat different concept
of resolving these issues.

> Well, obviously that works, but it has two downsides:
> 
>  - "0.0" will have to be checked specially

"checked specially" where?

>  - "0.0" is not particularly meaningful, other than as a take on
> DISPLAY. On tty Emacs frames, `display' is nil. Why would it be "0.0"
> on Windows frames? They're no more X than tty frames are.

I thought that uniform behavior in common use-cases could make
maintenance easier.