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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 16:05:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EB550AD.70505@gmx.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d3d6ofna.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>

 > I don't see how a user would ever figure that out.

How not?  When you split a live window the old window doesn't become a
parent window since otherwise any existing references to that window
would get lost.  You can ignore this fact, then Emacs works for you out
of the box and you won't need a doc-string or manual anyway.

 >  > In any case "subwindow" is a pretty common term
 >
 > Yes, and that's a bug-not-a-feature here, given that other usages are
 > applicable to Emacs internals at the very least (and in XEmacs, we
 > actually have GUI subwindows visible from Lisp as such, although you
 > rarely see code that uses these features).

IIUC delete_all_subwindows is in XEmacs just as in Emacs and in addition
XEmacs has (or at least had)

(defun window-reduce-to-one (window)
   "Make sure only one subwindow of WINDOW is left."
   ...

martin



  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-05 15:05 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
2011-11-05 13:36       ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-11-05 15:05         ` martin rudalics [this message]
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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