From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Rename `mini-' options Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 00:10:11 -0400 Message-ID: References: <26694.128.165.0.81.1242438439.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> <002f01c9d5cb$9fd36b00$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> <003001c9d5ce$a044ea20$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> <873ab5fsyu.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87r5yp7c74.fsf@catnip.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1242533392 28177 80.91.229.12 (17 May 2009 04:09:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 04:09:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 17 06:09:45 2009 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 1M5Xgz-0006nS-Tu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 May 2009 06:09:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33280 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M5Xgz-00060D-5l for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 May 2009 00:09:41 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M5Xgt-0005zf-7k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 May 2009 00:09:35 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M5Xgo-0005uQ-8O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 May 2009 00:09:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=53874 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M5Xgo-0005uF-5U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 May 2009 00:09:30 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:39085) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M5Xgm-0004m6-5K; Sun, 17 May 2009 00:09:28 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgwFADIrD0pMCovv/2dsb2JhbACBT81FhAEFhWo X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.41,206,1241409600"; d="scan'208";a="38703532" Original-Received: from 76-10-139-239.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([76.10.139.239]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP; 17 May 2009 00:09:27 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 66AA18096; Sun, 17 May 2009 00:10:11 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87r5yp7c74.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (Miles Bader's message of "Sat, 16 May 2009 16:13:03 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.93 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:110941 Archived-At: >> the name of the window in question is "minibuffer window". > Er, except that it's not. > For better or worse, Emacs traditionally distinguishes "the minibuffer" > from "the echo area", and resize-mini-windows applies to both. So a > name which captures this subtlety is arguably better than one which lies > a bit for the sake of convenient document searching. Actually, we very often refer to this window as "minibuffer window". E.g. C-h f window-minibuffer-p RET says: Return non-nil if WINDOW is a minibuffer window. WINDOW defaults to the selected window. So while this name might not be perfect, it's not that terrible and has been in use for a while, so we may as well declare it official. Stefan