From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: C-x 2 and C-x 3 Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 15:43:58 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87wrbs5vsx.fsf@gnu.org> <8139egbc9l.fsf@gmail.com> <8162jc7xy2.fsf@gmail.com> <4EA80D40.8070104@harpegolden.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1319636855 29852 80.91.229.12 (26 Oct 2011 13:47:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 13:47:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David De La Harpe Golden Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 26 15:47:31 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RJ3pK-0002H5-9M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 15:47:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33200 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RJ3pJ-000075-QS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 09:47:29 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:36398) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RJ3pG-00006s-KJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 09:47:27 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RJ3pC-00018t-Iu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 09:47:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-fx0-f41.google.com ([209.85.161.41]:53638) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RJ3pC-00018m-CJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 09:47:22 -0400 Original-Received: by faat2 with SMTP id t2so2037762faa.0 for ; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 06:47:21 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=ui+Z2+xUXyNcrmG3CUGy3HxSH0gt98MzGG8wQ0nJofI=; b=SpgAd23AgN8kQzrKI/fyIQXqadu7T3b0gUFCPpnWkFeC5NEK29bszcxRqybIWfgRXD ZExqPmOEj/76gTlFNStKFKPLbzQIuIui37q7LLvh/yBeJJ+Ltgsx8P4a2fy8uTpyC5dM uZol7nEoBT0Clsfj6FKSAJFWSBEGQihMOqrsU= Original-Received: by 10.223.36.193 with SMTP id u1mr8345925fad.27.1319636658291; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 06:44:18 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.152.42.202 with HTTP; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 06:43:58 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4EA80D40.8070104@harpegolden.net> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.161.41 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:145569 Archived-At: On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 15:38, David De La Harpe Golden wrote: > On 26/10/11 13:20, Lennart Borgman wrote: >> >> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 14:13, Jambunathan K >> =C2=A0wrote: >>> >>> Jambunathan K =C2=A0writes: >>> >>>>> Martin recently introduced the command names >>>>> >>>>> =C2=A0 split-window-above-each-other -> =C2=A0C-x 2 >>>>> =C2=A0 split-window-side-by-side =C2=A0 =C2=A0 -> =C2=A0C-x 3 >> >> Why do we need new names? Are not those introduced by Martin very >> clear and good? >> > > "side-by-side" isn't so bad I suppose, but "above eachother" just doesn't > make sense. "above eachother": window A above window B AND window B above > window A. ;-) > Contrast "one above the other" - makes sense, and is fairly idiomatic > english (e.g. [1]), even if a bit of a mouthful. So then why not just rename it to split-window-one-above-the-other? (Or something similar.)