From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
Cc: Chong Yidong <cyd@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Subwindow terminology
Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2011 14:28:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EB53A16.3030604@gmx.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87hb2iohql.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>
> > 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. In any case "subwindow" is a pretty common term and was
already used in earlier versions of Emcas, for example, in the routine
delete_all_subwindows and in the description of `window-tree'.
martin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-05 13:28 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 [this message]
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
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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