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From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
Cc: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>, Chong Yidong <cyd@gnu.org>,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: C-x 2 and C-x 3
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 17:47:15 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ya1utza0ik.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EA7D649.3080609@gmx.at> (martin rudalics's message of "Wed, 26 Oct 2011 11:43:37 +0200")

martin rudalics wrote:

> Confusion of operation and state based reasoning.  People adopting the
> latter were surprised that a horizontal split would produce a vertical
> divider (among them ISTR Glenn Morris, Miles Bader and some people on
> help-gnu-emacs).

Yes; for example I would call them split-window-about-vertical-axis and
split-window-about-horizontal-axis, which are "opposite" to the
traditional names.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-10-26 21:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 84+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-26  2:30 C-x 2 and C-x 3 Chong Yidong
2011-10-26  3:38 ` Evil Boris
2011-10-26  4:35 ` Jambunathan K
2011-10-26  5:38   ` Tim Cross
2011-10-26 11:47     ` Deniz Dogan
2011-10-26 16:33       ` Richard Stallman
2011-10-26 19:19     ` Andreas Röhler
2011-10-26 19:40       ` Deniz Dogan
2011-10-27  5:27         ` Andreas Röhler
2011-10-26 12:13   ` Jambunathan K
2011-10-26 12:20     ` Lennart Borgman
2011-10-26 13:38       ` David De La Harpe Golden
2011-10-26 13:43         ` Lennart Borgman
2011-10-26 14:19           ` Deniz Dogan
2011-10-26 15:25           ` David De La Harpe Golden
2011-10-27  6:36           ` Juri Linkov
2011-10-26 14:58         ` Drew Adams
2011-10-26 15:09           ` Lennart Borgman
2011-10-26 15:20             ` Drew Adams
2011-10-26 15:56           ` David De La Harpe Golden
2011-10-26 15:28     ` Dave Abrahams
2011-10-26  8:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-26  8:41 ` Ulrich Mueller
2011-10-26  9:43   ` martin rudalics
2011-10-26 12:20     ` Nix
2011-10-27 16:13       ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-10-26 21:47     ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2011-10-26  9:22 ` martin rudalics
2011-10-29  1:04   ` Johan Bockgård
2011-10-29  1:06   ` Johan Bockgård
2011-10-29  1:10   ` Johan Bockgård
2011-10-29  8:16     ` martin rudalics
2011-10-29  9:50       ` Chong Yidong
2011-10-29 10:27         ` martin rudalics
2011-10-29 16:20           ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-29 14:49       ` Drew Adams
2011-10-29 23:56     ` Richard Stallman
2011-10-30  8:34       ` martin rudalics
2011-10-30 17:18         ` Richard Stallman
2011-10-29 16:18   ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-26 10:20 ` anerbenartzi
2011-10-26 10:36 ` anerbenartzi
2011-10-26 10:59   ` martin rudalics
2011-10-26 11:15 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2011-10-26 14:06   ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-26 14:32     ` Lluís
2011-10-27  6:33       ` Juri Linkov
2011-10-27 11:08         ` Lluís
2011-10-27 14:04         ` Drew Adams
2011-10-27 14:16           ` Jambunathan K
2011-10-27 15:25             ` Drew Adams
2011-10-27 15:30             ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-10-27 15:38               ` Drew Adams
2011-10-27 16:04                 ` Alan Mackenzie
2011-10-27 16:41                   ` Jambunathan K
2011-10-27 16:44                     ` Lennart Borgman
2011-10-27 17:09                       ` Jambunathan K
2011-10-27 20:24                         ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2011-10-28  0:14                     ` John Yates
2011-10-28  9:31                       ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-10-29  1:00             ` Dave Abrahams
2011-10-28  6:32           ` Juri Linkov
2011-10-28 15:03     ` Chong Yidong
2011-10-29  0:56       ` Tim Cross
2011-10-26 15:36 ` Barry Warsaw
2011-10-26 18:15   ` Alan Mackenzie
2011-10-26 18:42     ` Barry Warsaw
2011-10-27  6:39   ` Juri Linkov
2011-10-27  9:49   ` martin rudalics
2011-10-27 12:30     ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-27 12:31       ` Deniz Dogan
2011-10-27 13:22       ` martin rudalics
2011-10-27 13:39       ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-10-28  6:34 ` What is ISO? (was: C-x 2 and C-x 3) Juri Linkov
2011-10-28 17:16   ` What is ISO? martin rudalics
2011-10-29  3:57     ` Chong Yidong
2011-10-29  8:17       ` martin rudalics
2011-10-29  8:59         ` Chong Yidong
2011-10-29 10:29           ` martin rudalics
2011-10-30  1:00             ` Chong Yidong
2011-10-30  8:34               ` martin rudalics
2011-10-29  7:30     ` Andreas Röhler
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-10-26 17:01 C-x 2 and C-x 3 grischka
2011-10-26 18:23 ` Eli Zaretskii

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