From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
To: Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Subwindow terminology
Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2011 11:59:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EB6688F.7050300@gmx.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2aa89d30w.fsf@boostpro.com>
> It's a broken metaphor if a child of X is not also a descendant of X,
> and terribly counter-intuitive.
The manual doesn't use metaphors ...
> I don't have any idea what it means for
> a child window to be adopted, and I don't think it matters.
... but if you want to think metaphorically, then "adoption" is the term
to use.
>> I didn't use the terms "ancestor" and "descendant"
>> because these would introduce a genealogical connotation that doesn't
>> exist.
>
> I'm sorry, but you did. You said "often a parent window is
> genealogically a descendant..." Of course, you were explaining why the
> term descendant was misleading, but I wouldn't have posted at all if it
> weren't for the fact that you used these terms together.
How else would you describe the fact that a child window is older than
its parent window?
martin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-06 10:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-05 4:36 Subwindow terminology Chong Yidong
2011-11-05 11:23 ` martin rudalics
2011-11-05 12:50 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-11-05 13:28 ` martin rudalics
2011-11-05 13:36 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-11-05 15:05 ` martin rudalics
2011-11-05 16:54 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-11-05 20:31 ` Dave Abrahams
2011-11-06 8:50 ` martin rudalics
2011-11-06 9:16 ` Dave Abrahams
2011-11-06 10:59 ` martin rudalics [this message]
2011-11-06 11:36 ` Dave Abrahams
2011-11-06 13:24 ` martin rudalics
2011-11-06 9:26 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-11-06 10:59 ` martin rudalics
2011-11-06 11:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-11-06 23:17 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-11-07 10:18 ` martin rudalics
2011-11-08 9:55 ` Chong Yidong
2011-11-06 22:15 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-11-07 10:17 ` martin rudalics
2011-11-07 10:16 ` martin rudalics
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