From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: right-char and left-char
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2011 21:49:51 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvaa9da830.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8762k1ojy0.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (Chong Yidong's message of "Thu, 06 Oct 2011 18:04:55 -0400")
> This lands us in the unfortunate situation where a command named
> `left-char' sometimes moves right, and a command named `right-char'
> sometimes moves left. Their names seem to imply that what distinguishes
> these commands from `forward-char'/`backward-char' is their
> directionality.
None of this sounds very satisfactory, but at the same time giving
a name that faithfully reflects the behavior seems impossibly hard.
Basically "left-char" means "do what is intended by pressing the left
arrow", which is of course circular.
I think we're better off with the current approximate names and
description than with something that goes into too many details.
Stefan "who still finds it odd that keeping <right> pressed may
end up stopping in the middle of the buffer"
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-07 1:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-06 16:45 right-char and left-char Chong Yidong
2011-10-06 18:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-06 22:04 ` Chong Yidong
2011-10-06 22:45 ` Drew Adams
2011-10-07 12:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-07 1:49 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2011-10-07 12:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-07 12:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-06 22:20 ` Chong Yidong
2011-10-07 12:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-07 15:57 ` Chong Yidong
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