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That doesn't help emacs noobs at all. Half the Emacs term still used today 40 years after being coined don't make any sense. Wait - this is not the Window, but the... Frame? What?

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Emacs terminology for the uninitiated. http://wikemacs.org/wiki/Emacs_Terminology

frame -> X window

buffer -> tab

window -> tile

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