From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Using several frames on TTYs, switching them, terminology: [Is also: Tabbed buffers] Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:32:10 -0500 Message-ID: References: <18330.23354.579245.68671@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <87ejc5sf4l.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <18330.29609.396872.678539@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <87wspxqwjv.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <20080127195538.GA5014@muc.de> <8e24944a0801280742g42d5d579p40c684f601222980@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1201555959 10728 80.91.229.12 (28 Jan 2008 21:32:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:32:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "David De La Harpe Golden" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 28 22:32:59 2008 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 1JJbb8-0002me-H2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:32:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JJbah-0005h8-I1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:32:31 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JJbaO-0005ZS-Bo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:32:12 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JJbaN-0005Yn-Cm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:32:11 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JJbaN-0005Yh-6q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:32:11 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JJbaM-0007Y1-Vj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:32:11 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JJbaM-0003Sh-JH; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:32:10 -0500 In-reply-to: <8e24944a0801280742g42d5d579p40c684f601222980@mail.gmail.com> (david.delaharpe.golden@gmail.com) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:87727 Archived-At: > Because that's the word they are generally called, in regard to > browsers for instance, and what most computer users will know. Heh. Maybe should rename [emacs] frames to windows and [emacs] windows to panes, too. :-) That might be good if it were not for the painful incompatibility that would mean. Since we have no tabs, now, we have no existing name for them. There is no obstacle to using the generally known name.