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bug#8121: Error in built-in tutorial?


From: Glenn Morris
Subject: bug#8121: Error in built-in tutorial?
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2011 15:12:29 -0500
User-agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/)

Jon Exell wrote:

> 229 >> Try typing C-u 8 C-v now.
> 230
> 231    This should have scrolled the screen up by 8 lines.  If you would like
> 232    to scroll it down again, you can give an argument to M-v.
>
> The behaviour of these commands is the exact opposite however; As
> mentioned earlier in the tutorial, C-v scrolls down and M-v up.

C-h k C-v   ->    C-v runs the command scroll-up

C-h k M-v   ->    M-v runs the command scroll-down

"Scrolling up" moves text up the screen, which has the effect of
advancing you forwards through a document.

See "Scrolling" in the Emacs manual.





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