Re: Change terminology to better align users’ experience with modern GUIs

[Noam Postavsky]

On Tue, 23 Jul 2019 at 02:46, 조성빈 <pcr910303@icloud.com> wrote:

> IMO in my ideal world, there should be no division between `window' and 
> `buffer', the difference should be abstracted away so that users don’t have 
> to know the `window' notion at all.

I don't see how that would even be possible.

> Changing the `window' term to `pane' or something else seems like a 
> low-hanging fruit for people who would like to try using Emacs; I’m 
> interested/curious on other people’s opinions about this.

This could be helpful, but there are a *lot* of function names using
'window'. That means adding a lot of aliases for backwards
compatibility.