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: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-24 r117559: Fix bug #18636 with documentation of multi-monitor displays. Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 10:32:03 +0300 Message-ID: <83oatlitqk.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83vbnuib0y.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1412839948 14577 80.91.229.3 (9 Oct 2014 07:32:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2014 07:32:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 09 09:32:21 2014 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 1Xc8Cr-0002YF-Gn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2014 09:32:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40882 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xc8Cq-0001Da-Ro for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2014 03:32:12 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51392) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xc8CZ-0001DR-86 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2014 03:32:00 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xc8CU-0007Lo-3B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2014 03:31:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:38956) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xc8CT-0007Lg-RZ; Thu, 09 Oct 2014 03:31:50 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0ND600E001274000@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Thu, 09 Oct 2014 10:31:48 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0ND600E522902070@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Thu, 09 Oct 2014 10:31:48 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: 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:175169 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Cc: Glenn Morris , emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2014 17:31:41 -0400 > > >> "side bar" was never mentioned before now. > > It's popular terminology, not something specific to Emacs. > > FWIW, like Glenn, I don't know exactly what are taskbars and sidebars. > I vaguely know they're thingies that I've heard mentioned, especially in > a Windows context. > > > I found it very hard to be OS-agnostic here and still convey the ideas. > > Agreed. > > I think replacing "the task bar and side bar" with "task bars and side > bars" is about as good as we can make it. > Better not add terminologu such as "panels" (used also in XFCE), since > these have a fairly strong but different meaning in other systems and > will just lead to more confusion. Well, Glenn removed "side bars", which I think is a mistake, but I'm not going to argue. Btw, Glenn: you also removed @smallisp -- did you make sure that with @lisp the example doesn't overflow the right margin in the printed version of the manual? That was the reason I used @smallisp: some of the lines were too long.