From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
Cc: Chong Yidong <cyd@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Subwindow terminology
Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2011 22:36:09 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d3d6ofna.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EB53A16.3030604@gmx.at>
martin rudalics writes:
> Using the term "descendant" with Emacs windows is misleading because
> often a parent window is genealogically a descendant of one of its
> subwindows.
I don't see how a user would ever figure that out.
> In any case "subwindow" is a pretty common term
Yes, and that's a bug-not-a-feature here, given that other usages are
applicable to Emacs internals at the very least (and in XEmacs, we
actually have GUI subwindows visible from Lisp as such, although you
rarely see code that uses these features).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-05 13:36 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 [this message]
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
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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