From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Proposal to improve the nomenclature of scrolling directions Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2012 23:17:17 +0200 Message-ID: <83fw4l15b6.fsf@gnu.org> References: <50994EF8.5000109@yandex.ru> <83vcdh1iwc.fsf@gnu.org> <2B5C98417BC14B52A67BFAB62DBC8EF9@us.oracle.com> <83mwyt1cuq.fsf@gnu.org> <1CF4C6CD6A0240B69C63136DE50020A5@us.oracle.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1352323043 28545 80.91.229.3 (7 Nov 2012 21:17:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2012 21:17:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Adrian.B.Robert@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, dgutov@yandex.ru To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 07 22:17:32 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TWD07-0001uY-SB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Nov 2012 22:17:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43106 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TWCzy-00083n-M9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Nov 2012 16:17:22 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:60143) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TWCzv-00083S-K6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Nov 2012 16:17:20 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TWCzu-0007ae-1P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Nov 2012 16:17:19 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:60471) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TWCzt-0007aX-P7; Wed, 07 Nov 2012 16:17:17 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MD400200YXLMR00@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Wed, 07 Nov 2012 23:17:16 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MD40029BZ4RJLA0@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Wed, 07 Nov 2012 23:17:16 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <1CF4C6CD6A0240B69C63136DE50020A5@us.oracle.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.169 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:154721 Archived-At: > From: "Drew Adams" > Cc: , , , > > Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2012 13:00:35 -0800 > > The outside world calls "window" what Emacs calls "frame". Maybe we should > rename all functions and variables that use "frame" to use "window" instead, to > avoid this traditional-Emacs-generated confusion. Yes, maybe we should. > You wouldn't mind that, would you, even if it introduced false positives for > people looking for symbols having to do with Emacs windows? Looking for symbols without knowing well enough what you are looking for always brings a lot of false positives. So no, I won't mind.