Mercurial > emacs
changeset 71856:52fe532e1485
(Frames): Explain nature of frames better.
| author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
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| date | Wed, 12 Jul 2006 16:09:36 +0000 |
| parents | 0fa817d8a084 |
| children | f0d5cd4ffd22 |
| files | lispref/frames.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/lispref/frames.texi Wed Jul 12 16:07:17 2006 +0000 +++ b/lispref/frames.texi Wed Jul 12 16:09:36 2006 +0000 @@ -8,10 +8,16 @@ @chapter Frames @cindex frame - A @dfn{frame} is a rectangle on the screen that contains one or more -Emacs windows. A frame initially contains a single main window (plus -perhaps a minibuffer window), which you can subdivide vertically or -horizontally into smaller windows. + In Emacs editing, A @dfn{frame} is a screen objec that contains one +or more Emacs windows. It's the kind of object that is called a +``window'' in the terminology of graphical environments; but we can't +call it a ``window'' here, because Emacs uses that word in a different +way. + + A frame initially contains a single main window and/or a minibuffer +window; you can subdivide the main window vertically or horizontally +into smaller windows. In Emacs Lisp, a @dfn{frame object} is a Lisp +object that represents a frame on the screen. @cindex terminal frame When Emacs runs on a text-only terminal, it starts with one