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: Re: Subwindow terminology Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2011 21:50:58 +0900 Message-ID: <87hb2iohql.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <87wrbfrxqz.fsf@gnu.org> <4EB51CCC.6040806@gmx.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1320497483 2058 80.91.229.12 (5 Nov 2011 12:51:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2011 12:51:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Chong Yidong , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: martin rudalics Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 05 13:51:18 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1RMfiP-0002XA-TK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Nov 2011 13:51:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53256 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RMfiP-0001Qk-5m for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Nov 2011 08:51:17 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:51933) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RMfiM-0001QD-Cu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Nov 2011 08:51:15 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RMfiL-0001dx-DO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Nov 2011 08:51:14 -0400 Original-Received: from mgmt1.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.223]:48509) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RMfiL-0001bm-5M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Nov 2011 08:51:13 -0400 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mgmt1.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F9E03FA0752; Sat, 5 Nov 2011 21:50:59 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0E8C51A274E; Sat, 5 Nov 2011 21:50:59 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: <4EB51CCC.6040806@gmx.at> X-Mailer: VM 8.2.0a1 under 21.5 (beta31) "ginger" 2dbefd79b3d3 XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 130.158.97.223 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:145881 Archived-At: martin rudalics writes: > > I don't understand the term "subwindow" in the new window code. What's > > the difference between a subwindow and a child window? > > The set of child windows of a window W is the set of windows that have W > as their parent window. The set of subwindows of W is recursively > defined as the set of windows whose parent is either W or a subwindow of > W. This is usually referred to as "descendant". Having a completely unrelated term suggests that maybe these are GUI subwindows or something other than "child or child of child etc".