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From: | Dmitry Gutov |
Subject: | Re: Rename "window" to "pane" (after Emacs 27) |
Date: | Wed, 8 Apr 2020 20:29:36 +0300 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.4.1 |
On 08.04.2020 18:34, Sam Steingold wrote:
By then it is quite possible that the whole "window manager" paradigm will be obsolete as more and more computing is done on mobile devices with full-screen-only windows, where the current Emacs terminology makes more sense.Do you imagine Emacs would use one-window-per-frame by them?Of course not. What made you think that?!
Ah, ok, I think I see your point.Still, even 10 years later we'll have a lot of users remember what "window" means now. And they will be just as fine with the "pane" terminology, I'm sure.
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