From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: C-x 2 and C-x 3 Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 17:47:15 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87wrbs5vsx.fsf@gnu.org> <20135.51113.455424.214783@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <4EA7D649.3080609@gmx.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1319665646 28374 80.91.229.12 (26 Oct 2011 21:47:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 21:47:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Ulrich Mueller , Chong Yidong , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: martin rudalics Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 26 23:47:21 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 1RJBJh-0003yZ-3t for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 23:47:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56333 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RJBJg-0004Vz-Ls for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 17:47:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:37756) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RJBJd-0004VV-M1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 17:47:19 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RJBJc-00036H-LJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 17:47:17 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:33704) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RJBJc-00036D-Jp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 17:47:16 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RJBJb-0002VP-3i; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 17:47:15 -0400 X-Spook: Belknap AMW Delta Force DRM JPL strategic USCOI afsatcom X-Ran: |%+I\^xo?JI65Cn8M/d[G}CD48kvA]nz3tb8jJ&n\vSJ)%}5+(ZvWS1uI7[qh[vvyn@y)T X-Hue: red X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: <4EA7D649.3080609@gmx.at> (martin rudalics's message of "Wed, 26 Oct 2011 11:43:37 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.10 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:145605 Archived-At: 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.