From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Juri Linkov'" <juri@jurta.org>, "'Eli Zaretskii'" <eliz@gnu.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 06:38:58 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <839B3C46B8E6433384FACC65D02EBC18@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y5w55zfw.fsf@mail.jurta.org>
> The only problem with these diagrams is that ASCII art
> doesn't distinguish between internal and live windows:
> ______________________________________
> | ______ ____________________________ |
> || || __________________________ ||
> || ||| ___________ ___________ |||
> || |||| || ||||
> || |||| || ||||
> || ||||_____W6____||_____W7____||||
> || |||____________W4____________|||
> || || __________________________ ||
> || ||| |||
> || |||____________W5____________|||
> ||__W2__||_____________W3_____________ |
> |__________________W1__________________|
>
> It would help to draw live and internal windows with
> different lines, e.g.
>
> ______________________________________
> |******** ____________________________ |
> |* *| __________________________ ||
> |* *||**************************|||
> |* *||* ** *|||
> |* *||* ** *|||
> |* *||******W6***********W7*****|||
> |* *||____________W4____________|||
> |* *|****************************||
> |* *|* *||
> |* *|*************W5*************||
> |***W2***|_____________W3_____________ |
> |__________________W1__________________|
>
> but this is ugly and I can't find a better way to draw them.
Just use a different label/name convention: IW3 (or I3 or N3 or ...) for
internal windows. (Mention the convention in the text, of course.)
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-28 13:38 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
2011-10-28 13:38 ` Drew Adams [this message]
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