Subject: bug#3599: closed (Re: bug#3599: (elisp)Window Tree: Need to define root window)

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2011 09:41:02 +0000

Your bug report

#3599: 23.0.94; (elisp)Window Tree: Need to define root window

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: bug#3599: (elisp)Window Tree: Need to define root window
From: martin rudalics <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2011 11:40:17 +0200
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Bugs #3598 (doc string of frame-root-window) and #3599 ((elisp)Window
Tree: Need to define root window) were fixed by providing corresponding
descriptions in the Elisp manual.

martin

Subject: 23.0.94; (elisp)Window Tree: Need to define root window
From: "Drew Adams" <[email-masked]>
To: <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:56:35 -0700

"where ROOT represents the window tree of the frame's root window"
 
So what is the "frame's root window" - what does that mean?
 
Note too that "root window" means something about window manager
windows, outside Emacs, so it is all the more important to explain
this concept.

In GNU Emacs 23.0.94.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
 of 2009-05-24 on SOFT-MJASON
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4)'