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(struct frame): Rename members height to text_lines,
width to text_cols, window_height to total_lines, window_width to
total_cols, new_height to new_text_lines, new_width to
new_text_cols. All uses changed.
(struct frame): New members which consolidate common members of
x_output, w32_output, and mac_output structures: left_pos,
top_pos, pixel_height, pixel_width, x_pixels_diff, y_pixels_diff,
win_gravity, size_hint_flags, border_width, internal_border_width,
line_height, fringe_cols, left_fringe_width, right_fringe_width,
want_fullscreen. All uses changed.
(struct frame): New member column_width contaning the canonical
column width, analogue to line_height. All uses changed.
(struct frame): Rename members scroll_bar_pixel_width to
config_scroll_bar_width, and scroll_bar_cols to
config_scroll_bar_cols. All uses changed.
(struct frame): New member scroll_bar_actual_width which
consolidates and renames the vertical_scroll_bar_extra member of
x_output, w32_output, and mac_output structures. All uses changed.
(FRAME_PIXEL_HEIGHT): Renamed from PIXEL_HEIGHT and moved
from x/w32/macterm.h files. All uses changed. Also change code
which referred to f->output_data...->pixel_height.
(FRAME_PIXEL_WIDTH): Renamed from PIXEL_WIDTH and moved
from x/w32/macterm.h files. All uses changed. Also change code
which referred to f->output_data...->pixel_width.
(FRAME_LINES): Renamed from FRAME_HEIGHT. All uses changed.
Also change code which referred to f->height.
(FRAME_COLS): Renamed from FRAME_WIDTH. All uses changed.
Also change code which referred to f->width.
(FRAME_NEW_HEIGHT, FRAME_NEW_WIDTH): Remove macros; change uses
to update new_text_lines and new_text_cols members directly.
(FRAME_CONFIG_SCROLL_BAR_WIDTH): Renamed from
FRAME_SCROLL_BAR_PIXEL_WIDTH. All uses changed.
(FRAME_CONFIG_SCROLL_BAR_COLS): Renamed from
FRAME_SCROLL_BAR_COLS. All uses changed.
(FRAME_LEFT_SCROLL_BAR_COLS, FRAME_RIGHT_SCROLL_BAR_COLS):
Renamed from FRAME_LEFT_SCROLL_BAR_WIDTH and
FRAME_RIGHT_SCROLL_BAR_WIDTH, resp. All uses changed.
(FRAME_SCROLL_BAR_AREA_WIDTH, FRAME_LEFT_SCROLL_BAR_AREA_WIDTH)
(FRAME_RIGHT_SCROLL_BAR_AREA_WIDTH): New macros.
(FRAME_TOTAL_COLS): Renamed from FRAME_WINDOW_WIDTH.
(SET_FRAME_COLS): Renamed from SET_FRAME_WIDTH.
(FRAME_TOTAL_COLS_ARG): Renamed from FRAME_WINDOW_WIDTH_ARG.
(WINDOW_VERTICAL_SCROLL_BAR_COLUMN): Remove unused macro.
(WINDOW_VERTICAL_SCROLL_BAR_HEIGHT): Remove unused macro.
(FRAME_LINE_HEIGHT): Renamed from CANON_Y_UNIT. Unconditionally
return line_height member (it now has proper value also for
non-window frames).
(FRAME_COLUMN_WIDTH): Renamed from CANON_X_UNIT. Unconditionally
return new column_width member (rather than the default font width).
(FRAME_FRINGE_COLS, FRAME_LEFT_FRINGE_WIDTH)
(FRAME_RIGHT_FRINGE_WIDTH): Renamed from FRAME_X_... and moved
from x/w32/macterm.h files. Unconditionally return corresponding
member of frame structure (they now have proper values also for
non-window frames).
(FRAME_TOTAL_FRINGE_WIDTH): Renamed from FRAME_FRINGE_WIDTH.
Calculate return value from left and right widths.
(FRAME_INTERNAL_BORDER_WIDTH): Unconditionally return
internal_border_width member (has proper value for non-window frame).
(FRAME_PIXEL_X_FROM_CANON_X): Renamed from PIXEL_X_FROM_CANON_X.
(FRAME_PIXEL_Y_FROM_CANON_Y): Renamed from PIXEL_Y_FROM_CANON_Y.
(FRAME_CANON_X_FROM_PIXEL_X): Renamed from CANON_X_FROM_PIXEL_X.
(FRAME_CANON_Y_FROM_PIXEL_Y): Renamed from CANON_Y_FROM_PIXEL_Y.
(FRAME_LINE_TO_PIXEL_Y): Renamed from CHAR_TO_PIXEL_ROW,
consolidated from xterm.h, macterm.h, and w32term.h.
(FRAME_COL_TO_PIXEL_X): Renamed from CHAR_TO_PIXEL_COL,
consolidated from xterm.h, macterm.h, and w32term.h.
(FRAME_TEXT_COLS_TO_PIXEL_WIDTH): Renamed from
CHAR_TO_PIXEL_WIDTH consolidated from x/mac/w32term.h.
(FRAME_TEXT_LINES_TO_PIXEL_HEIGHT): Renamed from
CHAR_TO_PIXEL_HEIGHT consolidated from x/mac/w32term.h.
(FRAME_PIXEL_Y_TO_LINE): Renamed from PIXEL_TO_CHAR_ROW
consolidated from x/mac/w32term.h.
(FRAME_PIXEL_X_TO_COL): Renamed from PIXEL_TO_CHAR_COL
consolidated from x/mac/w32term.h.
(FRAME_PIXEL_WIDTH_TO_TEXT_COLS): Renamed from
PIXEL_TO_CHAR_WIDTH consolidated from x/mac/w32term.h.
(FRAME_PIXEL_HEIGHT_TO_TEXT_LINES): Renamed from
PIXEL_TO_CHAR_HEIGHT consolidated from x/mac/w32term.h.
author | Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk> |
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date | Sat, 24 May 2003 21:58:07 +0000 |
parents | e96ffe544684 |
children | 01772baf50a3 |
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Censoring my Software Richard Stallman [From Datamation, 1 March 1996] Last summer, a few clever legislators proposed a bill to "prohibit pornography" on the Internet. Last fall, right-wing Christians made this cause their own. Last week, President Clinton signed the bill, and we lost the freedom of the press for the public library of the future. This week, I'm censoring GNU Emacs. No, GNU Emacs does not contain pornography. It is a software package, an award-winning extensible and programmable text editor. But the law that was passed applies to far more than pornography. It prohibits "indecent" speech, which can include anything from famous poems, to masterpieces hanging in the Louvre, to advice about safe sex...to software. Naturally, there was a lot of opposition to this bill. Not only from people who use the Internet, and people who appreciate erotica, but from everyone who cares about freedom of the press. But every time we tried to tell the public what was at stake, the forces of censorship responded with a lie: they told the public that the issue was simply pornography. By embedding this lie as a presupposition in their statements about the issue, they succeeded in misinforming the public. So here I am, censoring my software. You see, Emacs contains a version of the famous "doctor program", a.k.a. Eliza, originally developed by Professor Weizenbaum at MIT. This is the program that imitates a Rogerian psychotherapist. The user talks to the program, and the program responds--by playing back the user's own statements, and by recognizing a long list of particular words. The Emacs doctor program was set up to recognize many common curse words, and respond with an appropriately cute message such as, "Would you please watch your tongue?" or "Let's not be vulgar." In order to do this, it had to have a list of curse words. That means the source code for the program was indecent. Because of the censorship law, I had to remove this feature. (I replaced it with a message announcing that the program has been censored for your protection.) The new version of the doctor doesn't recognize the indecent words. If you curse at it, it curses right back to you--for lack of knowing better. Now that people are facing the threat of two years in prison for indecent network postings, it would be helpful if they could access precise rules via the Internet for how to avoid imprisonment. However, this is impossible. The rules would have to mention the forbidden words, so posting them on the Internet would be against the rules. Of course, I'm making an assumption about just what "indecent" means. I have to do this, because nobody knows for sure. The most obvious possibile meaning is the meaning it has for television, so I'm using that as a tentative assumption. However, there is a good chance that our courts will reject that interpretation of the law as unconstitutional. We can hope that the courts will recognize the Internet as a medium of publication like books and magazines. If they do, they will entirely reject any law prohibiting "indecent" publications on the Internet. What really worries me is that the courts might take a muddled in-between escape route--by choosing another interpretation of "indecent", one that permits the doctor program or a statement of the decency rules, but prohibits some of the books that children can browse through in the public library and the bookstore. Over the years, as the Internet replaces the public library and the bookstore, some of our freedom of the press will be lost. Just a few weeks ago, another country imposed censorship on the Internet. That was China. We don't think well of China in this country--its government doesn't respect basic freedoms. But how well does our government respect them? And do you care enough to preserve them here? If you care, stay in touch with the Voters Telecommunications Watch. Look in their Web site http://www.vtw.org/ for background information and political action recommendations. Censorship won in February, but we can beat it in November. Copyright 1996 Richard Stallman Verbatim copying and distribution is permitted in any medium provided this notice is preserved.