From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Rename "window" to "pane" (after Emacs 27) Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2020 22:07:22 -0400 Message-ID: References: <878sjgbbot.fsf@oitofelix.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="115600"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: stefan@marxist.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Bruno =?iso-8859-1?Q?F=C3=A9lix?= Rezende Ribeiro Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 01 04:08:23 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jJSnn-000Tzi-5y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 01 Apr 2020 04:08:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46056 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jJSnm-0006gM-7l for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 31 Mar 2020 22:08:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:48603) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jJSmx-0005sX-I5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Mar 2020 22:07:37 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:53733) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jJSmx-0001An-8I; Tue, 31 Mar 2020 22:07:31 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jJSmp-0004jP-02; Tue, 31 Mar 2020 22:07:23 -0400 In-Reply-To: <878sjgbbot.fsf@oitofelix.com> (message from Bruno =?iso-8859-1?Q?F=C3=A9lix?= Rezende Ribeiro on Tue, 31 Mar 2020 15:50:58 -0300) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:246175 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] I have nothing in principle against renaming "window" to "pane", but it would be a big transient. Before doing that, I think we should poll the users to see what they think about it. Would this renaming affect only documentation, or would we make new function names too? -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)