On Wed, 10 Apr 2013, Henrique Andrade wrote:

> What do you think about naming the new window with the words "session"
> instead of "example"? In fact, in my interpretation, when we open a new
> window that is independent from the others, we're starting a new "session".
> Aren't we?

I'm afraid that suggestion has its own problems, since 
according to gretl terminology you start a new "session" 
whenever you open a new datafile in a running instance of 
gretl. (Saved models are discarded, the command log is 
re-started, and so on). So the phrase "new session" doesn't 
really pick out the specific case of starting a new instance 
of gretl. I suppose the word "copy" (as in "new copy of 
gretl") could be used instead of "instance", if people think 
that's any better.

> Allin, is it too much difficult implement the use of capital letters
> (A,B,C,...) instead of the PID?

Yes. It is subject to the same problem as trying to call them 
1,2,3,... I explained the problem in 
http://lists.wfu.edu/pipermail/gretl-devel/2013-April/004401.html 
It would be quite possible to get two instances of gretl with 
the same title -- unless we resort to overly complex and 
CPU-wasting contortions.

Allin

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