Re: Proposal to improve the nomenclature of scrolling directions

[Stefan Monnier]

> "up"/"down" alone are ambiguous, of course.  But I wasn't proposing
> them alone.  I was including also the part that is moving ("view" or
> whatever name describes the view port).

The real source of the problem is that most users are not aware that
there's an ambiguity, and so adding "viewport" (which they might even
not know) or "window" or "buffer content" won't help them much.

> Anyway, I think I've repeated my POV several times already, so I'll
> give up on this.

Yes, I think we need to agree to disagree here.

OTOH I agree with the part of your proposal to rename those scroll
functions to move away from the ambiguous names.
I.e. rename the functions to something like scroll-next* and
scroll-prev* (while keep compatibility aliases, of course).

If you could submit a patch that does that, that would be nice,


        Stefan