* Differences of "Emacs job" and "Emacs session"
@ 2013-07-10 11:22 Xue Fuqiao
2013-07-10 15:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-07-10 15:45 ` Glenn Morris
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From: Xue Fuqiao @ 2013-07-10 11:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-devel
What's the difference of an "Emacs job" and an "Emacs session"? ISTM
they are the same. If so, does it make sense to unify the wording for them?
(In my clone of Emacs repo, "Emacs job" appears 49 times and "Emacs
session" appears 483 times, including ChangeLog and binary files, so the
term "session" is used much more.)
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* Re: Differences of "Emacs job" and "Emacs session"
2013-07-10 11:22 Differences of "Emacs job" and "Emacs session" Xue Fuqiao
@ 2013-07-10 15:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-07-10 15:59 ` John Yates
2013-07-10 15:45 ` Glenn Morris
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From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2013-07-10 15:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Xue Fuqiao; +Cc: emacs-devel
> Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 19:22:47 +0800
> From: Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free@gmail.com>
>
> What's the difference of an "Emacs job" and an "Emacs session"?
The difference is in the POV. "Job" is looking at Emacs from POV of
the OS, while "session" takes the POV of the user who works in Emacs.
Both describe a running Emacs process.
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* Re: Differences of "Emacs job" and "Emacs session"
2013-07-10 11:22 Differences of "Emacs job" and "Emacs session" Xue Fuqiao
2013-07-10 15:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
@ 2013-07-10 15:45 ` Glenn Morris
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From: Glenn Morris @ 2013-07-10 15:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Xue Fuqiao; +Cc: emacs-devel
Xue Fuqiao wrote:
> What's the difference of an "Emacs job" and an "Emacs session"? ISTM
> they are the same. If so, does it make sense to unify the wording for them?
Not necessarily. Sometimes "job" could be more apppropriate, eg when
referring to a batch mode Emacs. It depends on context.
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* Re: Differences of "Emacs job" and "Emacs session"
2013-07-10 15:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
@ 2013-07-10 15:59 ` John Yates
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From: John Yates @ 2013-07-10 15:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Eli Zaretskii; +Cc: Xue Fuqiao, Emacs developers
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'Session' feels like a term that even younger emacs converts will relate
to. 'Job' seems anachronistic, a throw back to JCL and submitting work to
a batch system. Toda I find the term 'process' distinctly more apt.
/john
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 11:45 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 19:22:47 +0800
> > From: Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free@gmail.com>
> >
> > What's the difference of an "Emacs job" and an "Emacs session"?
>
> The difference is in the POV. "Job" is looking at Emacs from POV of
> the OS, while "session" takes the POV of the user who works in Emacs.
>
> Both describe a running Emacs process.
>
>
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