From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
Emacs Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Why are <next> and <prior> not called <page down> and <page up>?
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 20:55:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44F730BD.9000403@student.lu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44F717D6.2010604@gnu.org>
Jason Rumney wrote:
> Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>> Why does not key-description use the names <page down> and <page up>?
>>>
>>
>> 'Cause X11 calls them `prior' and `next'?
>>
> As does MS Windows at the API level, but these messages are intended
> for end users, not programmers, so it is better to follow how the keys
> are labelled on the majority of modern keyboards than the names used
> in the header files.
>
> Personally, the last time I saw these keys labelled Next and Prior was
> in 1992. Since then, every keyboard I have used has labelled them Page
> Up/Page Down or PgUp/PgDn or some other abbreviation.
>
> But I wouldn't suggest changing this until after the release, as it
> probably affects lots of documentation, even if we keep the old names
> as aliases for backwards compatibility.
I suggest changing them at once. 14 years is a long wait. I think
changing this makes it much easier for new users.
Would it be terribly difficult to try to change it in the documentation?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-31 18:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-31 15:57 Why are <next> and <prior> not called <page down> and <page up>? Lennart Borgman
2006-08-31 16:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-08-31 17:09 ` Jason Rumney
2006-08-31 18:55 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2006-08-31 20:34 ` Drew Adams
2006-08-31 20:45 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-08-31 21:10 ` Drew Adams
2006-08-31 21:31 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-08-31 22:00 ` Drew Adams
2006-08-31 22:19 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-09-01 2:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-09-01 5:08 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-09-01 6:29 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-09-01 17:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-09-01 0:47 ` David Abrahams
2006-09-01 9:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-09-01 21:57 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-09-01 22:31 ` Drew Adams
2006-09-02 7:05 ` David Kastrup
2006-09-02 7:53 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-09-02 13:46 ` Drew Adams
2006-09-03 14:53 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-09-03 15:49 ` Drew Adams
2006-09-02 21:49 ` Jason Rumney
2006-09-03 14:52 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-09-05 20:06 ` Kevin Rodgers
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