Re: Apologia for bzr

[Daniel Colascione]

On 01/06/2014 12:27 PM, Richard Stallman wrote:
> Conceivably we could rename "window" to "pane" and "frame" to "window".
> I think the two renamings would have to be done in two different releases,
> perhaps a year or two apart.

I don't think we could pull off this renaming. At least on the lisp 
level, we would have to maintain compatibility aliases effectively 
forever, doubling the number of lisp symbols dealing with these 
concepts. One does not simply rename a function that's been in constant 
use for 20 years. Sure, you might argue, we could change the labels we 
assign these concepts in the UI and leave lisp alone, but the lisp 
symbols are too closely tied to the UI (with respect to keybindings and 
M-x) to change the two independently.

The best thing we can do is explain in the tutorial and manual the 
correspondence between Emacs and common terms.