On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 09:00:03AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:

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> Yes, we discussed doing such a change a few years back (renaming window
> to pane [...]

> I think "many years" above can be estimated at about of 10 years [...]

And who knows what the "terminology du jour" will be in 10 years. This
industry is currently very much fad-driven.

So imagine Emacs (painfully) changes window -> pane and frame -> window,
and the dominant technology talks about "trays" and "vanes". Or something.

Cheers
-- t