From: Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <tosi@stekt.oulu.fi>
To: Keisuke Nishida <kxn30@po.cwru.edu>
Cc: guile-emacs@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: frames and windows
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 02:33:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r9cugjp4.fsf@PC486.Niemitalo.LAN> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m33dpaaetq.fsf@kei.cwru.edu>
Keisuke Nishida <kxn30@po.cwru.edu> writes:
> What about renaming them in terms of GTK+ when we use Emacs Scheme?
> I know this is very confusing and controversial, but I would choose
> renaming because it will help people after ten years.
We can't switch the names in Emacs Lisp, and Emacs Lisp will
exist after ten years.
If many users know the non-Emacs meanings of "window" and "frame"
and are confused by the Emacs meanings, it might be useful to
switch. But I didn't find the Emacs meanings too difficult to
learn.
If we switch the names, we must be very very careful about the
frontier between Scheme and Lisp. All macros which import or
export Lisp variables or functions should convert their names.
I believe it is easier to keep the frontier between Emacs and
window systems. If someone uses guile-gtk to create a GTK+
window, [s]he can't use that as an Emacs frame anyway.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-03-29 2:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-03-28 14:51 Keisuke Nishida
2000-03-29 2:33 ` Kalle Olavi Niemitalo [this message]
2000-03-29 7:49 ` Keisuke Nishida
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