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Emacs windows. There are no panes in Emacs. The Emacs window is held in a frame. The operating system calls that frame a window, but that's not what Emacs call
by jordigh 4y ago
Emacs windows. There are no panes in Emacs.
The Emacs window is held in a frame. The operating system calls that frame a window, but that's not what Emacs calls it.
https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/WindowsAndFrames https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/WindowsAndFrames
As to why Emacs calls everything something else, well, Emacs was first. As to why Emacs doesn't change its names, well, have you ever tried to change Stallman's mind?
- cromwellian 4y agoI know. I’ve been an emacs user for 30 years, but I tend to just call them buffers. In the old days when I would be using a PPP or SLIP connection into a dialup Unix, my whole screen would be Emacs in VT100 mode so it made a lot more sense to thing of them as windows back then.