From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#9875: 24.0.90; Confusing description of the "window tree" in ELisp manual Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 06:38:58 -0700 Message-ID: <839B3C46B8E6433384FACC65D02EBC18@us.oracle.com> References: <4EA817C9.9030000@gmx.at><83y5w7bn2r.fsf@gnu.org> <4EA929E6.9080001@gmx.at> <87y5w55zfw.fsf@mail.jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1319809218 32524 80.91.229.12 (28 Oct 2011 13:40:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 13:40:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 9875@debbugs.gnu.org To: "'Juri Linkov'" , "'Eli Zaretskii'" Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 28 15:40:14 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RJmfN-000501-KQ for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Fri, 28 Oct 2011 13:39:04 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt105.oracle.com (abhmt105.oracle.com [141.146.116.57]) by acsmt358.oracle.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id p9SDcvuR022276; Fri, 28 Oct 2011 08:38:58 -0500 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/10.159.56.19) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Fri, 28 Oct 2011 06:38:57 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <87y5w55zfw.fsf@mail.jurta.org> Thread-Index: AcyVSpSX97htdn9DS6aJkUyZkUnujwALCQ6Q X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6109 X-Source-IP: acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090208.4EAAB07A.0072,ss=1,re=0.000,fgs=0 X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:42:02 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:53247 Archived-At: > 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.)