From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ams@kemisten.nu (Alfred M. Szmidt) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: The minibuffer vs. Dialog Boxes (Re: Making XEmacs be more up-to-date) Date: 21 Apr 2002 19:51:50 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <7263-Sat20Apr2002145929+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> <3CC1BEB9.9020104@cs.berkeley.edu> <87elhap2r4.fsf@lgh163a.kemisten.nu> <3CC231D2.6020709@cs.berkeley.edu> <873cxpz436.fsf@lgh163a.kemisten.nu> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1019411673 7013 127.0.0.1 (21 Apr 2002 17:54:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 17:54:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: toomim@cs.berkeley.edu, eliz@is.elta.co.il, link@pobox.com, bradym@balestra.org, xemacs-design@xemacs.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16zLXl-0001p0-00 for ; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 19:54:33 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16zLY5-0004IP-00 for ; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 19:54:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16zLXQ-0001qn-00; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 13:54:12 -0400 Original-Received: from lgh163a.kemisten.nu ([212.32.172.173]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16zLVX-0001kg-00 for ; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 13:52:15 -0400 Original-Received: from ams by lgh163a.kemisten.nu with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 16zLV8-0002rL-00; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 19:51:50 +0200 Original-To: bob@rattlesnake.com In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 12 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2.50 Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:2951 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:2951 * Robert J Chassell writes: > ... "buffer" to "document" or "file" ... > Please be careful about language. Yes, but the whole discussion is about changing the terminology, i.e. calling a buffer a file/document, which is wrong, as they are totally different things, as you nicely noted. [snip - a nice and long description about buffer vs. file ] -- Alfred M. Szmidt