Re:What Emacs got right, or how modern apps were more like 5...
by hollerith on Saturday June 15, 2024 @10:39AM
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>“Why are windows called frames, and tabs called windows?”
Windows are called frames in Emacs, yes, but it is panes, not tabs, that are called windows. Tabs are called buffers. (More precisely, the closest analog to a browser tab is an Emacs buffer and a tab in VSCode is an almost-perfect analog to a buffer in Emacs.)
Windows are called frames in Emacs, yes, but it is panes, not tabs, that are called windows. Tabs are called buffers. (More precisely, the closest analog to a browser tab is an Emacs buffer and a tab in VSCode is an almost-perfect analog to a buffer in Emacs.)