From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard M Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: patch for optional inhibit of delete-other-windows(IDE feature) Date: Thu, 01 May 2008 19:44:01 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87hcdik9xt.fsf@catnip.gol.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1209685478 20684 80.91.229.12 (1 May 2008 23:44:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 23:44:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, joakim@verona.se, klaus.berndl@sdm.de To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 02 01:45:13 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JriSf-0003Xc-4G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 May 2008 01:45:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51517 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JriRy-0008HR-1b for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 May 2008 19:44:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JriRu-0008Gp-9Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 May 2008 19:44:26 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JriRs-0008Gc-Ju for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 May 2008 19:44:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=57266 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JriRs-0008GZ-GC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 May 2008 19:44:24 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JriRs-0001wc-5u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 May 2008 19:44:24 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JriRV-0007sr-07; Thu, 01 May 2008 19:44:01 -0400 In-reply-to: <87hcdik9xt.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (message from Miles Bader on Thu, 01 May 2008 11:57:50 +0900) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:96299 Archived-At: > I chose "pin" because in some gui toolkits there is a widget that looks > like a little needle/pin that you can use to "fasten" the window and not > go away on certain operations. > > That is horribly cryptic and unclear. We should rename it before > installing it. It's a pretty common term for this usage though. I had never heard it before, so it can't be that common. [A related example is "pinning" memory to prevent it from being paged out.] That is normally called "locking" the page. I suggest `nodelete' or `preserve' for this property. On the other hand, maybe the proper implementation of window groups will make this unnecessary. If `delete-other-windows' only deletes windows in the same group as the selected window, does that take care of this?