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I wouldn't consider an index of my email, or an ongoing IRC conversation, or a calculator to be a file or a document. Buffer is certainly a better name. There m
by jacobsenscott 4y ago
I wouldn't consider an index of my email, or an ongoing IRC conversation, or a calculator to be a file or a document. Buffer is certainly a better name. There might be an even better name, but I don't know what a better name for "visual output from anything" is. Monitor?, but that would be kind of weird because people would think of the hardware.
- d0mine 4y agoAnother name for the API provided by "buffet" could have been "console" (combination of monitor+keyboard: read/write API).
- morelisp 4y agoA buffer in Emacs has no input or display capabilities; your "console" would be an alternative to what Emacs calls a "window" (an active buffer combined with input and display parameters).