Re: dired-details: show/hide file details in Dired

[Robert J. Chassell]

    I guess that what you two mean by "buffer fitting" is what I
    referred to as window fitting. Is that correct - do you mean
    resizing the window (especially horizontally) to fit the buffer?

You cannot resize a console.  It is fixed.  It is a physical object.
You can only resize buffers in it -- what we call windows when we are
sure that people understand.

As I said in the RSS feed to

    http://www.rattlesnake.com/notions/windows-frames.html

    Sighted people often think of a `window' on a computer screen as
    being a contiguous, rectangular space.  In Emacs, one of the four
    major types of user interface, this region is called a `frame'.
    This tells the history of the words.  Emacs divided its display
    into windows a generation ago before other windowing systems
    appeared.  Emacs then became able to put its display into several
    parts of a screen, each composed of several windows. The `parts'
    needed a name.  Hence, `frame'.

As I say on the page itself, 

    Emacs was designed initially to fill a complete display as a
    tiling window manager.  (A tiling window manager is one in which
    windows do not overlap, but are contiguous, like physical tiles.)
    Parts of the display were called windows because they enabled a
    sighted person to look at all or part of a buffer.

    Companies like Apple and Sun, and the X Consortium, copied Emacs
    jargon for their own windows, to mean a part of a screen.  (Or
    else the notion of a window was generic and commonplace.)

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