On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 9:32 PM, Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org> wrote:

> On 01/06/2014 12:27 PM, Richard Stallman wrote:
>
>> Conceivably we could rename "window" to "pane" and "frame" to "window".
>> I think the two renamings would have to be done in two different releases,
>> perhaps a year or two apart.
>>
>
> I don't think we could pull off this renaming. At least on the lisp level,
> we would have to maintain compatibility aliases effectively forever,
> doubling the number of lisp symbols dealing with these concepts. One does
> not simply rename a function that's been in constant use for 20 years.
> Sure, you might argue, we could change the labels we assign these concepts
> in the UI and leave lisp alone, but the lisp symbols are too closely tied
> to the UI (with respect to keybindings and M-x) to change the two
> independently.
>
> The best thing we can do is explain in the tutorial and manual the
> correspondence between Emacs and common terms.
>

We are talking about the user level. Interactive function names can be
duplicated.