This is the mail archive of the
guile-emacs@sourceware.cygnus.com
mailing list for the Guile project.
Re: frames and windows
- To: Keisuke Nishida <kxn30 at po dot cwru dot edu>
- Subject: Re: frames and windows
- From: Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <tosi at stekt dot oulu dot fi>
- Date: 29 Mar 2000 13:21:59 +0300
- Cc: guile-emacs at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <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.