Re: Change terminology to better align users’ experience with modern GUIs

[Stefan Monnier]

>> I think "many years" above can be estimated at about of 10 years [...]
> And who knows what the "terminology du jour" will be in 10 years.

OTOH Emacs-24 was released in 2012, so by 2022 the vast majority of
packages will depend on this version of Emacs, which came with
package.el, so we can expect that by then all those packages will be
distributed via ELPA.

That means packages could start using the "pane" terminology with
Emacs-24 already, assuming we provide a forward-compatibility package
(like I did for cl-lib) adding the "pane" aliases.

That might help speed up the transition a bit.


        Stefan