* What does `inferior' mean?
@ 2012-12-31 11:06 Xue Fuqiao
2012-12-31 11:14 ` Bastien
2012-12-31 11:18 ` Nicolas Richard
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From: Xue Fuqiao @ 2012-12-31 11:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
I saw this term(or `word') in Emacs-related materials many times, such as IELM, inferior-apl, inferior Octave, inferior-moz-process and so on. What does it mean?
I only know it means `of lower quality' or `of lower rank', but it seems none of them fits the meaning in Emacs.
--
Best regards, Xue Fuqiao.
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/XueFuqiao
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* Re: What does `inferior' mean?
2012-12-31 11:06 What does `inferior' mean? Xue Fuqiao
@ 2012-12-31 11:14 ` Bastien
2012-12-31 11:40 ` Xue Fuqiao
2012-12-31 11:18 ` Nicolas Richard
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From: Bastien @ 2012-12-31 11:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Xue Fuqiao; +Cc: help-gnu-emacs
Hi Xue,
Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free@gmail.com> writes:
> I saw this term(or `word') in Emacs-related materials many times, such as
> IELM, inferior-apl, inferior Octave, inferior-moz-process and so on. What
> does it mean?
It has the same meaning as "sub".
> I only know it means `of lower quality' or `of lower rank', but it
> seems none of them fits the meaning in Emacs.
An inferior process is a subprocess. "Inferior" has no moral
connotation here.
--
Bastien
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* Re: What does `inferior' mean?
2012-12-31 11:06 What does `inferior' mean? Xue Fuqiao
2012-12-31 11:14 ` Bastien
@ 2012-12-31 11:18 ` Nicolas Richard
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From: Nicolas Richard @ 2012-12-31 11:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free@gmail.com> writes:
> I saw this term(or `word') in Emacs-related materials many times, such
> as IELM, inferior-apl, inferior Octave, inferior-moz-process and so
> on. What does it mean?
> I only know it means `of lower quality' or `of lower rank', but it
> seems none of them fits the meaning in Emacs.
"inferior process" is in the index to the Emacs manual, see e.g. (info "(emacs)
Compilation") ; in this context it simply means a process running
inside emacs.
HTH,
--
Nico.
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* Re: What does `inferior' mean?
2012-12-31 11:14 ` Bastien
@ 2012-12-31 11:40 ` Xue Fuqiao
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From: Xue Fuqiao @ 2012-12-31 11:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Bastien; +Cc: help-gnu-emacs
On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 12:14:37 +0100
Bastien <bzg@altern.org> wrote:
> It has the same meaning as "sub".
I see, thanks.
--
Best regards, Xue Fuqiao.
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/XueFuqiao
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