From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dave Abrahams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Subwindow terminology Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2011 12:31:20 -0800 Message-ID: References: <87wrbfrxqz.fsf@gnu.org> <4EB51CCC.6040806@gmx.at> <87hb2iohql.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <4EB53A16.3030604@gmx.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1320525619 19405 80.91.229.12 (5 Nov 2011 20:40:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2011 20:40:19 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 05 21:40:15 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RMn2D-0000Od-H7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Nov 2011 21:40:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60784 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RMn2D-00061a-2M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Nov 2011 16:40:13 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:54560) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RMn29-000613-Jr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Nov 2011 16:40:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RMn28-0004b1-69 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Nov 2011 16:40:09 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:44739) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RMn27-0004at-W0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Nov 2011 16:40:08 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RMn26-0000KO-Ja for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Nov 2011 21:40:06 +0100 Original-Received: from 129-134-58-66.gci.net ([66.58.134.129]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 05 Nov 2011 21:40:06 +0100 Original-Received: from dave by 129-134-58-66.gci.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 05 Nov 2011 21:40:06 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 129-134-58-66.gci.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/23.3 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:/IksSa/BFV1/WL8vqmFMNph6TqQ= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:145887 Archived-At: on Sat Nov 05 2011, martin rudalics 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