Re: scroll-*-aggressively

[Chong Yidong]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

> But this is all backwards, isn't it?  "Scrolling up" in this context
> means moving point towards larger values, e.g. with C-n or <down>
> arrow, which scrolls the _text_ (not the window) up.  Moreover, when
> point goes off the window's bottom with C-p, the new point is
> positioned `scroll-up-aggressively' parts of the window height from
> the window _bottom_, not from its top.  IOW, the above description
> confuses "up" with "down".
>
> Am I missing something?

It's a mistake in the manual, indeed.  I checked in a fix to emacs-23.

BTW, I think we should replace ye olde "scroll-up" and "scroll-down"
terminology with "scroll-forward" and "scroll-backward".