From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Rename `mini-' options
Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 00:10:11 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvhbzk74n2.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r5yp7c74.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (Miles Bader's message of "Sat, 16 May 2009 16:13:03 +0900")
>> the name of the window in question is "minibuffer window".
> Er, except that it's not.
> For better or worse, Emacs traditionally distinguishes "the minibuffer"
> from "the echo area", and resize-mini-windows applies to both. So a
> name which captures this subtlety is arguably better than one which lies
> a bit for the sake of convenient document searching.
Actually, we very often refer to this window as "minibuffer window".
E.g. C-h f window-minibuffer-p RET says:
Return non-nil if WINDOW is a minibuffer window.
WINDOW defaults to the selected window.
So while this name might not be perfect, it's not that terrible and has
been in use for a while, so we may as well declare it official.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-17 4:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-16 1:47 Rename `mini-' options Davis Herring
2009-05-16 2:11 ` Drew Adams
2009-05-16 2:22 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-05-16 2:32 ` Drew Adams
2009-05-16 3:09 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-05-16 4:20 ` Drew Adams
2009-05-16 10:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-05-16 19:20 ` Drew Adams
2009-05-16 19:47 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-05-16 6:43 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-05-16 7:13 ` Miles Bader
2009-05-16 8:24 ` Drew Adams
2009-05-16 9:21 ` Miles Bader
2009-05-16 19:21 ` Drew Adams
2009-05-17 1:59 ` Miles Bader
2009-05-16 9:18 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-05-17 4:10 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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2009-05-15 20:59 ` Drew Adams
2009-05-16 0:12 ` Deniz Dogan
2009-05-16 0:21 ` Drew Adams
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