From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden>
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:42:00 +0900
Cc: Jan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dj=E4rv?= <address@hidden>, "Emacs Dev
\[emacs-devel\]" <address@hidden>,
David De La Harpe Golden <address@hidden>
> A "window" in Emacs is the physical area of the screen in which a
> buffer is displayed.
That's a restriction of Emacs, not of the concept of window, though.
Emacs is effectively a tiling window manager (within each frame).
Actually, there is no such restriction. For example, the tool bar, in
its Emacs implementation, is just a specialized window.