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Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives
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Chong Yidong |
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Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives |
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Wed, 31 Dec 2008 09:18:31 -0500 |
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"Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden> writes:
> I don't care what the interface is called. But my feeling is that the
> primary UI operation here is "withdrawing a frame", and that whether
> the process gets STOPed or not is an implementation detail.
On a tty, you want to withdraw all the frames in one go, so conceptually
that's equivalent to withdrawing the terminal; on a graphical display,
that's not so useful, and it would be a nuisance if C-z iconfified all
frames instead of just the current frame. On a graphical display, you
want to withdraw individual frames; on a tty, that's not at all useful,
and it would be a nuisance if C-z acted on single frames.
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives, (continued)
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives, Richard M Stallman, 2008/12/31
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives, Stefan Monnier, 2008/12/31
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/12/31
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives, Richard M Stallman, 2008/12/30
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/12/31
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives, Stefan Monnier, 2008/12/31
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/12/31
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives,
Chong Yidong <=
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/12/31
Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives, Richard M Stallman, 2008/12/28