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| From: | Lennart Borgman (gmail) |
| Subject: | Re: display.texi: (<line>,<col>) isn't documented. |
| Date: | Thu, 07 Jun 2007 17:40:55 +0200 |
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Drew Adams wrote:
column only - 67x line only - 234y line & column - 67x234yIt's abnormal to put the column first (for example compiler error messages), so this would be confusing.We could certainly decide on either order, but I cannot imagine that 234y67x is more universal or less "abnormal" than 67x234y.
Putting the most significant part first is more common AFAICS. That is the way we write numbers, for example.
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