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Re:Knuth's Art of Computer Programming, V 4B, has gone into ... by jordigh on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @08:37PM (#33089362)
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

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?

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Re:Knuth's Art of Computer Programming, V 4B, has gone into ... by cromwellian on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @09:39PM (#33089959)
I 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.
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