From: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
Cc: Chong Yidong <cyd@gnu.org>,
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Windows' "split status"
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 12:36:30 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sjlfxbg1.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EC2821C.4020400@gmx.at> (martin rudalics's message of "Tue, 15 Nov 2011 16:15:40 +0100")
On 15 Nov 2011, martin rudalics told this:
> What makes you think that? You can let-bind `window-nest' to t around a
> split and get an extra parent around the resulting two windows. After
> that you can split those windows any which way you want and can get an
> arbitrary number of windows within a "sub-frame". The manual explicitly
> uses the term "always" in the sentence
>
> If this variable is always non-`nil', a frame's window
> tree is a binary tree so every window but the frame's root window
> has exactly one sibling.
As a native English speaker, I'm afraid that this reads like a
non-native-English-speaker's attempt to render
> If this variable is always non-`nil', a frame's window tree is always
> a binary tree so every window but the frame's root window has exactly
> one sibling.
which unfortunately has a quite different meaning. While your
formulation is grammatically correct, I don't think it's very meaningful
to talk about a variable's value "always" being something.
Perhaps framing this in terms of a guarantee is clearer?
> If this variable's value remains non-`nil' throughout the lifetime of
> a frame, the frame's window tree is guaranteed to be a binary tree;
> every window nested below the root window will have exactly one
> sibling.
--
NULL && (void)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-23 12:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-11 15:37 Windows' "split status" Chong Yidong
2011-11-11 18:37 ` martin rudalics
2011-11-12 0:36 ` Chong Yidong
2011-11-12 10:01 ` martin rudalics
2011-11-13 3:23 ` Chong Yidong
2011-11-13 10:49 ` martin rudalics
2011-11-13 16:10 ` Chong Yidong
2011-11-13 17:17 ` martin rudalics
2011-11-15 5:20 ` Chong Yidong
2011-11-15 7:25 ` martin rudalics
2011-11-15 9:39 ` Chong Yidong
2011-11-15 13:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-11-15 15:15 ` martin rudalics
2011-11-15 16:24 ` monnier
2012-01-10 16:26 ` martin rudalics
2011-11-23 12:36 ` Nix [this message]
2011-11-23 14:15 ` martin rudalics
2011-11-23 17:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-11-23 19:21 ` martin rudalics
2011-11-23 20:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-11-24 10:00 ` martin rudalics
2011-11-24 11:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-11-25 10:24 ` martin rudalics
2011-11-25 11:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-11-25 13:55 ` martin rudalics
2011-11-25 12:00 ` Nix
2011-11-25 12:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-11-25 12:14 ` Nix
2011-11-25 13:55 ` martin rudalics
2011-11-25 13:54 ` martin rudalics
2011-11-15 15:15 ` martin rudalics
2011-11-15 18:37 ` Juri Linkov
2011-11-16 5:08 ` Chong Yidong
2011-11-16 10:11 ` martin rudalics
2011-11-16 13:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-11-16 17:01 ` Juri Linkov
2011-11-17 10:34 ` martin rudalics
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