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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: A new name for the state of a set of frames?
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 11:46:31 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvk3k883a8.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAeL0SS4SVMfV+echedWshSDJmW+bpENArfCZrukwSH-0_HS2A@mail.gmail.com> (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Tue, 30 Jul 2013 17:25:22 +0200")

> I had settled in naming the structure (and thus the file) frame-state
> (a state of a set of frames, like frame-configuration is the
> configuration of a set of frames), but it has been suggested to me
> that it is a really bad name.

I must agree that I do not like window-state and frame-state, just like
I don't like window-configuration and frame-configuration:
to my ear, a "window state" or a "window configuration" sounds like
the state/config of a single window, rather than that of all the windows
in a frame.

IOW I'd find "frame-state" to be more fitting for what we now call
window-state/configuration.

Conclusion: these names are confusing.

I'm not sure what would be a good name for those things, but a better
name than what we have would be to simply use the plural form:
windows-state & frames-state.


        Stefan



  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-30 15:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-30 15:25 A new name for the state of a set of frames? Juanma Barranquero
2013-07-30 15:46 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2013-07-30 15:49   ` Juanma Barranquero
2013-07-31  7:44 ` Bastien
2013-07-31  9:41   ` Juanma Barranquero
2013-07-31  8:33 ` martin rudalics
2013-07-31  9:44   ` Juanma Barranquero
2013-07-31 11:31     ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2013-07-31 11:43       ` Juanma Barranquero
2013-07-31 12:52         ` Bastien
2013-08-01 12:02           ` Juanma Barranquero
2013-08-01 14:17             ` Stefan Monnier
2013-08-01 14:20               ` Juanma Barranquero
2013-08-01 14:42               ` Bastien
2013-08-01 14:44                 ` Juanma Barranquero
2013-08-01 17:23                   ` Stefan Monnier
2013-08-01 17:33                     ` Bastien
2013-08-01 19:51                       ` Stefan Monnier
2013-08-01 17:21                 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-08-01 17:31                   ` Bastien
2013-08-01 18:32                     ` Jan Djärv
2013-08-01 17:22                 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-08-01 17:37                   ` chad
2013-08-01 17:46                     ` Juanma Barranquero
2013-08-01 19:52                       ` Stefan Monnier
2013-08-01 20:32                       ` Juri Linkov
2013-08-01 21:12                         ` Stefan Monnier
2013-08-01 21:55                           ` Juri Linkov
2013-08-01 22:08                             ` Juri Linkov
2013-08-01 22:30                               ` Juanma Barranquero
2013-08-01 23:27                                 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-08-01 23:39                                   ` Juanma Barranquero
2013-08-02  4:45                                   ` Juanma Barranquero
2013-08-01 21:35                         ` Juanma Barranquero
2013-08-02  1:53                   ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-08-01 20:56               ` Alp Aker

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