From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>, martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
Cc: 44932@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#44932: 28.0.50; MINIBUF 'nomini' for window-in-direction
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2020 13:09:07 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <27c3eec9-5675-47ae-937e-b5440becf6b6@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87eekaa8au.fsf@mail.linkov.net>
> >> I think MINIBUF is the shortest that is still unambiguous.
> >
> > It gives the impression that it stands for a buffer where it means a
> > window that may also display the echo area. 'resize-mini-windows'
> > and 'max-mini-window-height' tried to establish the "mini-windows (the
> > minibuffer and the echo area)" nomenclature and we now take a step
> > back in the other direction?
>
> I don't know why MINI-WINDOW would be better than MINIBUF.
> Is this distinction significant here?
IMHO, MINI-WINDOW would be worse. It's not
about a small window. If someone wants to
be extra clear with the name (not needed,
if the rest of the doc string is clear about
what this is), then just use a longer name:
MINIBUF-WINDOW
or if that's not clear enough (it should be):
MINIBUFFER-WINDOW
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-28 20:40 bug#44932: 28.0.50; MINIBUF 'nomini' for window-in-direction Juri Linkov
2020-11-29 8:22 ` martin rudalics
2020-11-29 19:49 ` Juri Linkov
2020-11-30 9:05 ` martin rudalics
2020-11-30 20:49 ` Juri Linkov
2020-11-30 21:09 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2020-12-01 3:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-01 9:34 ` martin rudalics
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2020-12-01 3:49 ` Drew Adams
2020-12-01 15:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
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