From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: patch for optional inhibit of delete-other-windows(IDE feature) Date: Thu, 01 May 2008 11:57:50 +0900 Message-ID: <87hcdik9xt.fsf@catnip.gol.com> References: Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1209610700 27235 80.91.229.12 (1 May 2008 02:58:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 02:58:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, joakim@verona.se, klaus.berndl@sdm.de To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 01 04:58:56 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JrP0W-0005if-HL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 May 2008 04:58:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37451 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JrOzp-0006Xi-KU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:58:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JrOzm-0006XT-71 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:58:06 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JrOzj-0006XH-Um for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:58:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=37154 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JrOzj-0006XE-MO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:58:03 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp11.dentaku.gol.com ([203.216.5.73]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JrOzc-0001iD-87; Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:57:56 -0400 Original-Received: from 203-216-99-062.dsl.gol.ne.jp ([203.216.99.62] helo=catnip.gol.com) by smtp11.dentaku.gol.com with esmtpa (Dentaku) id 1JrOzX-0005gu-AD; Thu, 01 May 2008 11:57:51 +0900 Original-Received: by catnip.gol.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 35D252F49; Thu, 1 May 2008 11:57:50 +0900 (JST) System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu In-Reply-To: (Richard M. Stallman's message of "Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:01:00 -0400") Original-Lines: 15 X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV GOL (outbound) X-Abuse-Complaints: abuse@gol.com X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:96258 Archived-At: Richard M Stallman writes: > I chose "pin" because in some gui toolkits there is a widget that looks > like a little needle/pin that you can use to "fasten" the window and not > go away on certain operations. > > That is horribly cryptic and unclear. We should rename it before > installing it. It's a pretty common term for this usage though. [A related example is "pinning" memory to prevent it from being paged out.] -Miles -- Year, n. A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.