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RE: Proposal to improve the nomenclature of scrolling directions
From: |
Daniel Hackney |
Subject: |
RE: Proposal to improve the nomenclature of scrolling directions |
Date: |
Thu, 8 Nov 2012 17:18:23 -0500 |
"Drew Adams" <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Only veteran Emacs users know about that meaning of "page",
>
> Evidence for that claim?
>
> And what constitutes a "veteran"? Anyone who has ever used a command such as
> `count-lines-page', `backward-page', `sort-pages', `narrow-to-page',
> `what-page', or `ps-nb-pages-region'? Anyone who has ever customized an option
> such as `page-delimiter', `ps-even-or-odd-pages', or `ps-selected-pages'?
As a single data point: I've been using Emacs for 6 years and have written "a bunch" of elisp, and I've never noticed the backwards definition of up/down and have never used any of the aforementioned commands, nor any command or function which operates on ^L.
I've seen ^L characters in elisp code before (though never in any other kind of file) and I know it is some kind of "section delimiter" but I never really saw the point of it.
tl;dr: I wouldn't notice the absence of the ^L commands, and I think that bringing the scrolling motion commands into agreement with every other program would be great for newcomers.
- RE: Proposal to improve the nomenclature of scrolling directions, (continued)
Re: Proposal to improve the nomenclature of scrolling directions, Dmitry Gutov, 2012/11/06
- Re: Proposal to improve the nomenclature of scrolling directions, Richard Stallman, 2012/11/06
- RE: Proposal to improve the nomenclature of scrolling directions, Drew Adams, 2012/11/07
- Re: Proposal to improve the nomenclature of scrolling directions, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/11/07
- RE: Proposal to improve the nomenclature of scrolling directions, Drew Adams, 2012/11/07
- Re: Proposal to improve the nomenclature of scrolling directions, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/11/07
- RE: Proposal to improve the nomenclature of scrolling directions, Drew Adams, 2012/11/07
- Re: Proposal to improve the nomenclature of scrolling directions, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/11/07
RE: Proposal to improve the nomenclature of scrolling directions,
Daniel Hackney <=
Re: Proposal to improve the nomenclature of scrolling directions, Mathias Dahl, 2012/11/07
Re: Proposal to improve the nomenclature of scrolling directions, Dmitry Gutov, 2012/11/07
Re: Proposal to improve the nomenclature of scrolling directions, Bruce Korb, 2012/11/08
Re: Proposal to improve the nomenclature of scrolling directions, Bastien, 2012/11/13
Re: Proposal to improve the nomenclature of scrolling directions, Stefan Monnier, 2012/11/08