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28.0.50; MINIBUF 'nomini' for window-in-direction

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From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: 44932 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#44932: 28.0.50; MINIBUF 'nomini' for window-in-direction
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2020 10:05:41 +0100

>> One day we should make up our mind whether we want this arg to be called
>> MINI, MINIBUF or MINIBUFFER.  I have no personal preference but the
>> current state (in particular on the C-level) confuses the hell out of
>> me.
>
> I think MINIBUF is the shortest that is still unambiguous.

It gives the impression that it stands for a buffer where it means a
window that may also display the echo area.  'resize-mini-windows' and
'max-mini-window-height' tried to establish the "mini-windows (the
minibuffer and the echo area)" nomenclature and we now take a step back
in the other direction?

> Now at least renaming in window-in-direction is pushed to master.

And left MINI in the .texi file.  I spent some time trying to make
manual and doc-strings congruent in this regard ...

martin

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