On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 12:13 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen@xemacs.org> wrote:

Agreed.  The important disconnect is between windows and buffers, and
even that isn't so hard for users to figure out.  I 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.