From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: difference between window and buffer Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2021 05:50:33 +0100 Message-ID: <87im82ahd2.fsf@zoho.eu> References: Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="31971"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:4uDOWQy0zgXjj8qoK+R2mYH7HSE= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 12 06:07:26 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kzBtu-0008Cc-8p for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 12 Jan 2021 06:07:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35378 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kzBtt-0008IS-Aw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 12 Jan 2021 00:07:25 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:52302) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kzBiV-0004UC-I0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jan 2021 23:55:39 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:35366) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kzBiT-00030x-7a for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jan 2021 23:55:38 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kzBiQ-0005YC-HJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Jan 2021 05:55:34 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:127198 Archived-At: michael-franzese wrote: > I am getting confused what is the difference between window > and buffer. Think of a buffer as a bucket which contains text, while windows are what you see, in particular they show buffers or parts of buffers. A buffer is a data structure, a window is part of the user interface. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 https://dataswamp.org/~incal