From: Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Subwindow terminology
Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2011 12:31:20 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2obwqs44n.fsf@boostpro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4EB53A16.3030604@gmx.at
on Sat Nov 05 2011, martin rudalics <rudalics-AT-gmx.at> wrote:
>> > The set of child windows of a window W is the set of windows that have W
>
>> > as their parent window. The set of subwindows of W is recursively
>> > defined as the set of windows whose parent is either W or a subwindow of
>> > W.
>>
>> This is usually referred to as "descendant". Having a completely
>> unrelated term suggests that maybe these are GUI subwindows or
>> something other than "child or child of child etc".
>
> Using the term "descendant" with Emacs windows is misleading because
> often a parent window is genealogically a descendant of one of its
> subwindows.
So sometimes a child window is not necessarily a descendant window? If
so, that's just horrible. If you don't want to change the "subwindow"
terminology, maybe "child window" should become "immediate subwindow" or
"direct subwindow."
--
Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
http://www.boostpro.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-05 20:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-05 4:36 Subwindow terminology Chong Yidong
2011-11-05 11:23 ` martin rudalics
2011-11-05 12:50 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-11-05 13:28 ` martin rudalics
2011-11-05 13:36 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-11-05 15:05 ` martin rudalics
2011-11-05 16:54 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-11-05 20:31 ` Dave Abrahams [this message]
2011-11-06 8:50 ` martin rudalics
2011-11-06 9:16 ` Dave Abrahams
2011-11-06 10:59 ` martin rudalics
2011-11-06 11:36 ` Dave Abrahams
2011-11-06 13:24 ` martin rudalics
2011-11-06 9:26 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-11-06 10:59 ` martin rudalics
2011-11-06 11:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-11-06 23:17 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-11-07 10:18 ` martin rudalics
2011-11-08 9:55 ` Chong Yidong
2011-11-06 22:15 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-11-07 10:17 ` martin rudalics
2011-11-07 10:16 ` martin rudalics
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