Re: Subwindow terminology

[martin rudalics]

>  > The set of child windows of a window W is the set of windows that have W
>  > as their parent window.  The set of subwindows of W is recursively
>  > defined as the set of windows whose parent is either W or a subwindow of
>  > W.
>
> This is usually referred to as "descendant".  Having a completely
> unrelated term suggests that maybe these are GUI subwindows or
> something other than "child or child of child etc".

Using the term "descendant" with Emacs windows is misleading because
often a parent window is genealogically a descendant of one of its
subwindows.  In any case "subwindow" is a pretty common term and was
already used in earlier versions of Emcas, for example, in the routine
delete_all_subwindows and in the description of `window-tree'.

martin