Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?) [was: Apologia for bzr]

[Lennart Borgman]

On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 3:07 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull <address@hidden> wrote:

Lennart Borgman writes:
 > On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 12:13 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull <address@hidden> wrote:

 >> Agreed.  The important disconnect is between windows and buffers,
 >> and even that isn't so hard for users to figure out.  I think
 >> people used to recent browser interfaces will call buffers "tabs".

 > I think that is a good illustration of how confusing different
 > terms can be... ;-)  "Tabs" is a UI thing. Calling buffers "tabs"
 > would be very, very confusing for most new users.

Agreed.  I'm not suggesting that as Emacs terminology.  I'm saying
that users are going to see buffers as ways to show different content
in the same (GUI) window just like tabs do.

I see. ;-)
In a way, yes. It is a very useful concept. And one of the few things I think should be presented to new users. The rest should be so familiar so they should be able to start without knowing more. (If they are just to Notepad or something similar.