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Re: What does `inferior' mean?


From: Nicolas Richard
Subject: Re: What does `inferior' mean?
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2012 12:18:16 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2 (gnu/linux)

Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free@gmail.com> writes:

> I saw this term(or `word') in Emacs-related materials many times, such
> as IELM, inferior-apl, inferior Octave, inferior-moz-process and so
> on. What does it mean?

> I only know it means `of lower quality' or `of lower rank', but it
> seems none of them fits the meaning in Emacs.

"inferior process" is in the index to the Emacs manual, see e.g. (info "(emacs)
Compilation") ;  in this context it simply means a process running
inside emacs.

HTH,

-- 
Nico.




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