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Re: dired-details: show/hide file details in Dired
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Robert J. Chassell |
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Re: dired-details: show/hide file details in Dired |
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Thu, 05 Jul 2007 17:35:30 -0400 |
I guess that what you two mean by "buffer fitting" is what I
referred to as window fitting. Is that correct - do you mean
resizing the window (especially horizontally) to fit the buffer?
You cannot resize a console. It is fixed. It is a physical object.
You can only resize buffers in it -- what we call windows when we are
sure that people understand.
As I said in the RSS feed to
http://www.rattlesnake.com/notions/windows-frames.html
Sighted people often think of a `window' on a computer screen as
being a contiguous, rectangular space. In Emacs, one of the four
major types of user interface, this region is called a `frame'.
This tells the history of the words. Emacs divided its display
into windows a generation ago before other windowing systems
appeared. Emacs then became able to put its display into several
parts of a screen, each composed of several windows. The `parts'
needed a name. Hence, `frame'.
As I say on the page itself,
Emacs was designed initially to fill a complete display as a
tiling window manager. (A tiling window manager is one in which
windows do not overlap, but are contiguous, like physical tiles.)
Parts of the display were called windows because they enabled a
sighted person to look at all or part of a buffer.
Companies like Apple and Sun, and the X Consortium, copied Emacs
jargon for their own windows, to mean a part of a screen. (Or
else the notion of a window was generic and commonplace.)
--
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- Re: dired-details: show/hide file details in Dired, (continued)
- Re: dired-details: show/hide file details in Dired, Robert J. Chassell, 2007/07/04
- RE: dired-details: show/hide file details in Dired, Drew Adams, 2007/07/04
- Re: dired-details: show/hide file details in Dired, Robert J. Chassell, 2007/07/04
- RE: dired-details: show/hide file details in Dired, Drew Adams, 2007/07/04
- Re: dired-details: show/hide file details in Dired, Robert J. Chassell, 2007/07/04
- Re: dired-details: show/hide file details in Dired, Richard Stallman, 2007/07/04
- RE: dired-details: show/hide file details in Dired, Drew Adams, 2007/07/05
- Re: dired-details: show/hide file details in Dired, Robert J. Chassell, 2007/07/05
- Re: dired-details: show/hide file details in Dired, Richard Stallman, 2007/07/05
- RE: dired-details: show/hide file details in Dired, Drew Adams, 2007/07/05
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- Re: dired-details: show/hide file details in Dired, Richard Stallman, 2007/07/08
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- Re: dired-details: show/hide file details in Dired, Richard Stallman, 2007/07/05
- Re: dired-details: show/hide file details in Dired, Richard Stallman, 2007/07/04
- Re: dired-details: show/hide file details in Dired, Rob Giardina, 2007/07/05
- Re: dired-details: show/hide file details in Dired, Richard Stallman, 2007/07/05
- Re: dired-details: show/hide file details in Dired, Rob Giardina, 2007/07/04
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