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: Emacs terminology (not again!?) [was: Apologia for bzr] Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2014 23:07:00 +0900 Message-ID: <87y52rhomz.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <20140103152117.GA16679@c3po> <20140104082857.GA22010@thyrsus.com> <878uushwnq.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389103632 12545 80.91.229.3 (7 Jan 2014 14:07:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 14:07:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Richard Stallman , Toby Cubitt , Emacs-Devel devel , Eric Raymond , Stefan Monnier , Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen , Drew Adams To: Lennart Borgman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 07 15:07:17 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 1W0XJM-0006GY-N1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Jan 2014 15:07:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40837 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W0XJM-0002pD-1x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Jan 2014 09:07:16 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49805) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W0XJE-0002p7-Pk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Jan 2014 09:07:14 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W0XJ8-0004SF-V4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Jan 2014 09:07:08 -0500 Original-Received: from mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.224]:48618) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W0XJ8-0004Rk-LG; Tue, 07 Jan 2014 09:07:02 -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 5E6F7970A05; Tue, 7 Jan 2014 23:07:00 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 52C291A2877; Tue, 7 Jan 2014 23:07:00 +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:167603 Archived-At: Lennart Borgman writes: > On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 12:13 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: >> Agreed. =C2=A0The important disconnect is between windows and buffers, >> and even that isn't so hard for users to figure out. =C2=A0I think >> people used to recent browser interfaces will call buffers "tabs". > I think that is a good illustration of how confusing different > terms can be... ;-) "Tabs" is a UI thing. Calling buffers "tabs" > would be very, very confusing for most new users. Agreed. I'm not suggesting that as Emacs terminology. I'm saying that users are going to see buffers as ways to show different content in the same (GUI) window just like tabs do.