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Re: C-x 2 and C-x 3
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: C-x 2 and C-x 3 |
Date: |
Sat, 29 Oct 2011 19:56:42 -0400 |
> `new-window-below' and `new-window-on-right'. The "split-" prefix has
> purely operational connotation and application programmers as users are
> only interested in the state produced but hardly how it was obtained.
More lispy would be make-window-below etc. (Cf make-frame.)
`split-' in these command names expresses the fact that the space of
the current window is divided among that window and a new one.
`new-window' doesn't state that, so it is not as clear.
You could imagine that a `new-window' command did something else,
such as make a new window and give it space taken from elsewhere.
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Re: C-x 2 and C-x 3, Stefan Monnier, 2011/10/29
Re: C-x 2 and C-x 3, anerbenartzi, 2011/10/26
Re: C-x 2 and C-x 3, anerbenartzi, 2011/10/26
Re: C-x 2 and C-x 3, David De La Harpe Golden, 2011/10/26