From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: martin rudalics Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Subwindow terminology Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2011 14:28:54 +0100 Message-ID: <4EB53A16.3030604@gmx.at> References: <87wrbfrxqz.fsf@gnu.org> <4EB51CCC.6040806@gmx.at> <87hb2iohql.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1320499750 15536 80.91.229.12 (5 Nov 2011 13:29:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2011 13:29:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Chong Yidong , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 05 14:29:06 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RMgIw-0000Tt-Sj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Nov 2011 14:29:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33242 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RMgIw-0005Jc-42 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Nov 2011 09:29:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:33277) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RMgIu-0005JW-DV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Nov 2011 09:29:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RMgIt-0007Tr-IT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Nov 2011 09:29:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net ([213.165.64.22]:58674) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RMgIs-0007Tg-NV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Nov 2011 09:28:59 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 05 Nov 2011 13:28:56 -0000 Original-Received: from 62-47-63-86.adsl.highway.telekom.at (EHLO [62.47.63.86]) [62.47.63.86] by mail.gmx.net (mp066) with SMTP; 05 Nov 2011 14:28:56 +0100 X-Authenticated: #14592706 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+HTdEW19qHwRcX315/0oq28M9+YbdNWUoMrdXMre MET0BDpyNcov/m User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) In-Reply-To: <87hb2iohql.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 213.165.64.22 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:145882 Archived-At: > > The set of child windows of a window W is the set of windows that have W > > as their parent window. The set of subwindows of W is recursively > > defined as the set of windows whose parent is either W or a subwindow of > > W. > > This is usually referred to as "descendant". Having a completely > unrelated term suggests that maybe these are GUI subwindows or > something other than "child or child of child etc". Using the term "descendant" with Emacs windows is misleading because often a parent window is genealogically a descendant of one of its subwindows. In any case "subwindow" is a pretty common term and was already used in earlier versions of Emcas, for example, in the routine delete_all_subwindows and in the description of `window-tree'. martin