From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, joakim@verona.se,
klaus.berndl@sdm.de
Subject: Re: patch for optional inhibit of delete-other-windows(IDE feature)
Date: Thu, 01 May 2008 11:57:50 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hcdik9xt.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1JrKMG-0006VZ-0H@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard M. Stallman's message of "Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:01:00 -0400")
Richard M Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> I chose "pin" because in some gui toolkits there is a widget that looks
> like a little needle/pin that you can use to "fasten" the window and not
> go away on certain operations.
>
> That is horribly cryptic and unclear. We should rename it before
> installing it.
It's a pretty common term for this usage though. [A related example is
"pinning" memory to prevent it from being paged out.]
-Miles
--
Year, n. A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-25 22:35 patch for optional inhibit of delete-other-windows(IDE feature) joakim
2008-04-26 1:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-26 6:56 ` joakim
2008-04-28 1:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-28 11:26 ` joakim
2008-04-28 11:41 ` Miles Bader
2008-04-28 11:55 ` joakim
2008-04-28 18:26 ` Re[2]: " Eric M. Ludlam
2008-04-28 14:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-28 14:38 ` joakim
2008-04-28 15:04 ` klaus.berndl
2008-04-28 12:56 ` Jason Rumney
2008-04-30 8:09 ` klaus.berndl
2008-05-08 10:06 ` joakim
2008-05-08 14:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-26 14:49 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-04-28 1:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-29 11:05 ` joakim
2008-04-29 12:13 ` klaus.berndl
2008-04-29 13:31 ` martin rudalics
2008-04-29 13:47 ` klaus.berndl
2008-04-29 15:47 ` martin rudalics
2008-04-29 18:29 ` klaus.berndl
2008-04-29 20:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-29 23:16 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-04-29 23:16 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-04-30 5:57 ` joakim
2008-04-30 7:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-30 8:15 ` joakim
2008-04-30 9:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-30 10:47 ` klaus.berndl
2008-04-30 22:01 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-04-30 22:01 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-05-01 2:57 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2008-05-01 23:44 ` Richard M Stallman
[not found] <m37iela60f.fsf@verona.se>
[not found] ` <84D8FEFE8D23E94E9C2A6F0C58EE07E3429A02@mucmail3.sdm.de>
2008-04-28 11:14 ` joakim
2008-04-28 11:50 ` klaus.berndl
2008-04-28 15:34 ` martin rudalics
2008-04-28 15:55 ` klaus.berndl
2008-04-28 15:58 ` klaus.berndl
2008-04-28 22:01 ` martin rudalics
2008-04-29 8:46 ` klaus.berndl
2008-04-29 13:30 ` martin rudalics
2008-04-29 14:27 ` klaus.berndl
2008-04-29 15:47 ` martin rudalics
2008-04-29 16:35 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-04-29 18:04 ` Re[2]: " Eric M. Ludlam
2008-04-29 18:27 ` klaus.berndl
2008-04-29 19:04 ` Eric M. Ludlam
2008-04-29 20:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-29 21:28 ` martin rudalics
2008-04-29 21:27 ` martin rudalics
2008-04-29 23:08 ` Eric M. Ludlam
2008-04-30 5:37 ` martin rudalics
2008-04-30 11:55 ` Re[2]: " Eric M. Ludlam
2008-04-30 13:43 ` martin rudalics
2008-04-30 15:29 ` Eric M. Ludlam
2008-04-30 15:38 ` Robert J. Chassell
2008-04-29 21:27 ` martin rudalics
2008-04-30 3:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-28 19:45 ` Richard M Stallman
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