From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: The minibuffer vs. Dialog Boxes (Re: Making XEmacs be more up-to-date) Date: 20 Apr 2002 21:22:36 +0900 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <7263-Sat20Apr2002145929+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1019305499 6368 127.0.0.1 (20 Apr 2002 12:24:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 12:24:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: link@pobox.com, bradym@balestra.org, xemacs-design@xemacs.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16ytvH-0001eb-00 for ; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 14:24:59 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16yuF7-0005P5-00 for ; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 14:45:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16ytuv-0000QJ-00; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 08:24:37 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp01.fields.gol.com ([203.216.5.131]) by fencepost.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16ytt3-0000JL-00; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 08:22:42 -0400 Original-Received: from tc-2-248.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp ([203.216.25.248] helo=tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp) by smtp01.fields.gol.com with esmtp (Magnetic Fields) id 16ytt2-00080X-00; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 21:22:40 +0900 Original-Received: by tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E62FA307E; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 21:22:36 +0900 (JST) Original-To: Eli Zaretskii System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu In-Reply-To: <7263-Sat20Apr2002145929+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> Original-Lines: 14 X-Abuse-Complaints: abuse@gol.com Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:2836 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:2836 "Eli Zaretskii" writes: > As for buffers, I disagree that it's unused in the context used by > Emacs. I've seen several editors that do the same. And anyway, buffers are _not_ the same as `files' or `documents', and indeed, the name quite accurately describes what it does (and corresponds directly to the concept of a buffer you say you're used to doing OS work). Sometimes there's a one-to-one correspondence between buffers and files, but quite often there's not. Once a user learns about this, he can use this advantage. -Miles -- Saa, shall we dance? (from a dance-class advertisement)