From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: "Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro" <oitofelix@gnu.org>,
"Richard Stallman" <rms@gnu.org>,
"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>,
"Emacs developers" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Rename "window" to "pane" (after Emacs 27)
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2020 19:04:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkm=az7-ei3xDzS0HxVWCUknoXt-Fua=G-MqXNx2nn_06Sg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvo8sbs13q.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> > And would we then rename "frame" to "window", which
>
> We won't be able to do that before (almost) all legacy uses of "window"
> are gone (and not just from Emacs's own code), which will take many many
> years [...]
I agree, and also like your summary here:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2014-01/msg00532.html
> W.r.t using "panes", we could start by making a *forward compatibility*
> library `pane.el` distributed via GNU ELPA containing aliases to
> the current `window` functions and variables.
This is an interesting idea, well worth considering.
Best regards,
Stefan Kangas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-01 17:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-28 23:07 Rename "window" to "pane" (after Emacs 27) Stefan Kangas
2019-10-29 0:28 ` Filipp Gunbin
2019-10-29 1:55 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-10-30 17:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-31 2:07 ` Richard Stallman
2020-03-31 18:50 ` Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro
2020-04-01 2:07 ` Richard Stallman
2020-04-01 12:03 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-04-01 14:56 ` Drew Adams
2020-04-01 15:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-04-01 17:04 ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2020-04-01 17:30 ` Drew Adams
2020-04-02 2:34 ` Richard Stallman
2020-04-02 4:51 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-04-03 2:52 ` Richard Stallman
2020-04-01 15:25 ` Juanma Barranquero
2020-04-03 17:59 ` Sam Steingold
2020-04-03 18:34 ` Drew Adams
2020-04-03 18:53 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-03 18:56 ` Drew Adams
2020-04-03 18:54 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-08 15:34 ` Sam Steingold
2020-04-08 17:29 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-02 2:31 ` Richard Stallman
2020-04-02 2:31 ` Richard Stallman
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