From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dave Abrahams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Subwindow terminology Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2011 02:36:37 -0900 Message-ID: References: <87wrbfrxqz.fsf@gnu.org> <4EB51CCC.6040806@gmx.at> <87hb2iohql.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <4EB53A16.3030604@gmx.at> <4EB64A64.8080902@gmx.at> <4EB6688F.7050300@gmx.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1320579412 30422 80.91.229.12 (6 Nov 2011 11:36:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2011 11:36:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: martin rudalics Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 06 12:36:47 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RN11q-0005RO-Uc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Nov 2011 12:36:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39953 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RN11q-000077-CY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Nov 2011 06:36:46 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:43425) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RN11n-00006r-SZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Nov 2011 06:36:44 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RN11m-0007Vo-La for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Nov 2011 06:36:43 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-vw0-f41.google.com ([209.85.212.41]:60380) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RN11m-0007Vh-Hu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Nov 2011 06:36:42 -0500 Original-Received: by vws16 with SMTP id 16so200941vws.0 for ; Sun, 06 Nov 2011 03:36:41 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.52.38.6 with SMTP id c6mr19602099vdk.73.1320579401702; Sun, 06 Nov 2011 03:36:41 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from pluto.local (129-134-58-66.gci.net. [66.58.134.129]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id bl9sm11655924vdb.15.2011.11.06.03.36.40 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 06 Nov 2011 03:36:41 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by pluto.local (Postfix, from userid 501) id 76552126D30B; Sun, 6 Nov 2011 02:36:37 -0900 (AKST) In-Reply-To: <4EB6688F.7050300@gmx.at> (martin rudalics's message of "Sun, 06 Nov 2011 11:59:27 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/23.3 (darwin) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.212.41 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:145900 Archived-At: on Sun Nov 06 2011, martin rudalics wrote: >>> I didn't use the terms "ancestor" and "descendant" >>> because these would introduce a genealogical connotation that doesn't >>> exist. >> >> I'm sorry, but you did. You said "often a parent window is >> genealogically a descendant..." Of course, you were explaining why the >> term descendant was misleading, but I wouldn't have posted at all if it >> weren't for the fact that you used these terms together. > > How else would you describe the fact that a child window is older than > its parent window? I would say "the child window is older than the parent window." -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com