'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.
>
>