Re: The minibuffer vs. Dialog Boxes (Re: Making XEmacs be more up-to-date)

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On Sat, 20 Apr 2002, Michael Toomim said:
> Changing the terminology would help new users, and I think that old
> users would be able to get used to the changes pretty quickly, since
> they'd all be pretty intuitive (assuming they're just being updated to
> the terms commonly used today).

Bear in mind that the terminology is an API problem too: the terms
`buffer', `window', `frame' and so on are in the Lisp layer of (X)Emacs
and are used by Lisp code.

If we don't change the Lisp layer too, we introduce a serious
inconsistency between the terms used for the user-interface and the
terms used for Lisp (both of which blend seamlessly at present.)

If we do change the Lisp layer, we break the world.

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