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* Change terminology to better align users’ experience with modern GUIs
@ 2019-07-23  6:46 조성빈
  2019-07-23  9:37 ` Jean Louis
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From: 조성빈 @ 2019-07-23  6:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Is there any intent or interest in updating the terminology of Emacs documentation/function names to better align users’ experience with modern GUIs? 

For example, `window' and `buffer' in emacs is more meaningful when explained as `pane' or `document'.

Especially the term `window' is a frequent source of confusion to Emacs newcomers which confuse them to `frame'.

IMO in my ideal world, there should be no division between `window' and `buffer', the difference should be abstracted away so that users don’t have to know the `window' notion at all.
However that currently isn’t the case, there are multiple occurrences (and a dedicated chapter) in the Emacs manual about `window' and `buffer'.

Changing the `window' term to `pane' or something else seems like a low-hanging fruit for people who would like to try using Emacs; I’m interested/curious on other people’s opinions about this.

(Sorry about my bad English skills :-()



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2019-07-23  9:37 ` Jean Louis
2019-07-23 10:13   ` 조성빈
2019-07-23 17:03   ` Gerhard Wolfstieg
2019-07-23 19:17     ` tomas
2019-07-23 22:12     ` Stefan Monnier
2019-07-23 10:44 ` tomas
2019-07-23 14:43   ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-23 16:15     ` tomas
2019-07-23 16:48       ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-03 17:37       ` Emanuel Berg
2019-08-01  1:53   ` Emanuel Berg
2019-07-23 11:38 ` Noam Postavsky
2019-07-23 13:00   ` Stefan Monnier
2019-07-23 13:11     ` MBR
2019-07-23 13:40     ` tomas
2019-07-23 13:46       ` Noam Postavsky
2019-07-23 13:59         ` tomas
2019-07-23 14:38       ` Stefan Monnier
2019-08-03 17:12       ` Emanuel Berg
2019-08-01  1:55   ` Emanuel Berg

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