Re: Subwindow terminology

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

martin rudalics writes:

 > Using the term "descendant" with Emacs windows is misleading because
 > often a parent window is genealogically a descendant of one of its
 > subwindows.

I don't see how a user would ever figure that out.

 > In any case "subwindow" is a pretty common term

Yes, and that's a bug-not-a-feature here, given that other usages are
applicable to Emacs internals at the very least (and in XEmacs, we
actually have GUI subwindows visible from Lisp as such, although you
rarely see code that uses these features).