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Re: Rename "window" to "pane" (after Emacs 27)


From: Dmitry Gutov
Subject: Re: Rename "window" to "pane" (after Emacs 27)
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2020 20:29:36 +0300
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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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