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Reword documentation to make clear the difference in enumeration between event and reply types.

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Alejandro Angulo 2019-01-31 23:00:00 -08:00
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To get informed when certain things happen in i3, clients can subscribe to
events. Events consist of a name (like "workspace") and an event reply type
(like I3_IPC_EVENT_WORKSPACE). The events sent by i3 are in the same format
as replies to specific commands. However, the highest bit of the message type
is set to 1 to indicate that this is an event reply instead of a normal reply.
(like I3_IPC_EVENT_WORKSPACE). Events sent by i3 follow a format similar to
replies but with the highest bit of the message type set to 1 to indicate an
event reply instead of a normal reply. Note that event types and reply types
do not follow the same enumeration scheme (e.g. event type 0 corresponds to the
workspace event however reply type 0 corresponds to the COMMAND reply).
Caveat: As soon as you subscribe to an event, it is not guaranteed any longer
that the requests to i3 are processed in order. This means, the following