From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: 9875@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9875: 24.0.90; Confusing description of the "window tree" in ELisp manual
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 11:43:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <831utxbge5.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y5w55zfw.fsf@mail.jurta.org>
> From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
> Cc: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>, 9875@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 11:04:35 +0300
>
> > It is unnatural to talk about "size" or "side" of a window that
> > doesn't really exist on the screen!
>
> FWIW, I have no problem imagining a window that doesn't really exist
> on the screen.
I also "have no problem" imagining that, but it requires my brain
muscles to make a conscious effort each time I meet the word
"window". Such efforts should not be required when reading about such
a basic concept.
> The only problem with these diagrams is that ASCII art
> doesn't distinguish between internal and live windows:
Both Texinfo and Emacs's Info reader support images for quite some
time.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-28 9:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-26 11:43 bug#9875: 24.0.90; Confusing description of the "window tree" in ELisp manual Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-26 14:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-26 18:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-26 22:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-27 7:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-27 9:56 ` martin rudalics
2011-10-27 11:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-27 12:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-27 12:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-27 13:16 ` martin rudalics
2011-10-27 12:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-26 14:23 ` martin rudalics
2011-10-26 18:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-27 9:52 ` martin rudalics
2011-10-27 11:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-27 13:16 ` martin rudalics
2011-10-28 8:04 ` Juri Linkov
2011-10-28 9:43 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2011-10-28 13:38 ` Drew Adams
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