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Re: Change terminology to better align users’ experience with modern GUI
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Noam Postavsky |
Subject: |
Re: Change terminology to better align users’ experience with modern GUIs |
Date: |
Tue, 23 Jul 2019 07:38:28 -0400 |
On Tue, 23 Jul 2019 at 02:46, 조성빈 <pcr910303@icloud.com> wrote:
> IMO in my ideal world, there should be no division between `window' and
> `buffer', the difference should be abstracted away so that users don’t have
> to know the `window' notion at all.
I don't see how that would even be possible.
> Changing the `window' term to `pane' or something else seems like a
> low-hanging fruit for people who would like to try using Emacs; I’m
> interested/curious on other people’s opinions about this.
This could be helpful, but there are a *lot* of function names using
'window'. That means adding a lot of aliases for backwards
compatibility.
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Re: Change terminology to better align users’ experience with modern GUIs, Emanuel Berg, 2019/07/31