From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Emacs terminology (not again!?) [was: Apologia for bzr] Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2014 20:13:45 +0900 Message-ID: <878uushwnq.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <20140103152117.GA16679@c3po> <20140104082857.GA22010@thyrsus.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389093377 21158 80.91.229.3 (7 Jan 2014 11:16:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 11:16:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Richard Stallman , toby-dated-1389972095.0848dd@dr-qubit.org, Lennart Borgman , emacs-devel@gnu.org, esr@thyrsus.com, Stefan Monnier , Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 07 12:16:22 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 1W0Uds-0002oi-Vi for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Jan 2014 12:16:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39904 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W0Uds-0000L3-3X for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Jan 2014 06:16:16 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41143) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W0Udh-0000Hj-Kj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Jan 2014 06:16:12 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W0Uda-0004DC-CX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Jan 2014 06:16:05 -0500 Original-Received: from mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.224]:47055) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W0Uda-0003aq-2C; Tue, 07 Jan 2014 06:15:58 -0500 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E825970A39; Tue, 7 Jan 2014 20:13:45 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2010B1A2877; Tue, 7 Jan 2014 20:13:45 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM undefined under 21.5 (beta34) "kale" 2a0f42961ed4 XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 130.158.97.224 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:167589 Archived-At: Drew Adams writes: > > I think you're right there. If we just get rid of the word > > "window", I think that'll fix most confusions. > > What confusion? Is there really a problem? Are you sure? Agreed. The important disconnect is between windows and buffers, and even that isn't so hard for users to figure out. I think people used to recent browser interfaces will call buffers "tabs".