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[Javier Arantegui <address@hidden>]

Hello,

I'm preparing an screencast for beginners, especially for users without 
previous experience on emacs.

I know what a buffer solution or a buffer tank are, but I''m not sure if I 
know exactly what a buffer is in TeXmacs/Emacs. Is it correct to say that 
buffers are documents in *macs-ese?

One confusing thing about TeXmacs interface is --when you are going to open a 
new file-- you can use File -> Load... (shortcut F2) or the icon bar, click 
on the 'Load a file' button -> Load buffer... (F2). What am I loading? A 
document? A buffer? A file? I think that this mixed semantics is a little bit 
confusing for the new users used to office suites.

Do you think that it's important to mantain the 'buffer' concept? Maybe it 
could be substituted by 'document' or 'file'.

Javier


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Javier Arántegui
Dept. Tecnologia de Alimentos / Dept. of Food Technology
Universitat de Lleida / University of Lleida (Spain)
         
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