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From: Chong Yidong <cyd@gnu.org>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
Cc: dave@boostpro.com, "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>,
	Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Subwindow terminology
Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2011 17:55:57 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87obwn7xaq.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EB7B067.1060904@gmx.at> (martin rudalics's message of "Mon, 07 Nov 2011 11:18:15 +0100")

martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at> writes:

> The term subwindow was in code and documentations for many years.  If
> people decide, at a certain point in time, that they don't like the
> term any more, they recognize too late in what kind of Muddy they've
> been all that time.

In Emacs 23, it was only present in the documentation for `window-tree'
AFAICT (and it was never defined very well).

> Meanwhile I removed all references to the term subwindow from code and
> documentation.

Thanks.



  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-08  9:55 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
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 [this message]
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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