From: Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>
To: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm)
Cc: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>,
lekktu@gmail.com, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: display.texi: (<line>,<col>) isn't documented.
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 20:48:24 +1200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <18025.6104.599937.996902@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sl92q30d.fsf@kfs-lx.testafd.dk>
> > Maybe this confusion arises from the fact that currently numbers are
> > displayed in the order reverse to usual, where the first number in
> > a pair of coordinates corresponds to the x-axis (Columns), and second -
> > to the y-axis (Lines).
> >
> > That is a good point. Do people think we should swap them?
>
> Please don't.
>
> When I introduced the new (L,C) format, I looked at a number of other
> text editors, and they all have line number followed by column number.
> So that is the conventional sequence.
I agree. It is confusing, but note that order is not reverse to usual because,
as David Kastrup pointed out, the 'y' axis points downward. If you think of
the display as a matrix, then the conventional order *is* row-column (Aij).
However, I think the format should change, because (L,C) looks like a
co-ordinate.
--
Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-08 8:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 73+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-05 23:19 display.texi: (<line>,<col>) isn't documented Alan Mackenzie
2007-06-06 16:59 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-06 17:36 ` mode line: 1) indicate region size, if active; 2) highlight column # if > limit Drew Adams
2007-06-06 17:44 ` David House
2007-06-06 18:19 ` Drew Adams
2007-06-06 18:26 ` David House
2007-06-06 18:41 ` chad brown
2007-06-08 7:12 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-22 23:13 ` Drew Adams
2007-06-23 13:19 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-23 19:52 ` Juri Linkov
2007-06-24 14:40 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-06 19:44 ` display.texi: (<line>,<col>) isn't documented David Kastrup
2007-06-06 20:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-06-06 20:09 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-06 21:27 ` Juri Linkov
2007-06-07 15:12 ` Drew Adams
2007-06-07 15:17 ` David House
2007-06-07 15:30 ` Drew Adams
2007-06-07 15:40 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-06-07 15:42 ` David House
2007-06-07 15:35 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-07 15:44 ` David House
2007-06-07 15:45 ` Thomas Hühn
2007-06-07 15:49 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-06-07 16:15 ` Dieter Wilhelm
2007-06-07 17:18 ` Drew Adams
2007-06-07 17:28 ` Thomas Hühn
2007-06-07 17:42 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-07 19:39 ` Jay Belanger
2007-06-07 20:17 ` Juri Linkov
2007-06-07 18:13 ` Dieter Wilhelm
2007-06-07 20:26 ` Alan Mackenzie
2007-06-07 21:20 ` Drew Adams
2007-06-07 21:33 ` Davis Herring
2007-06-08 14:24 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-08 15:09 ` Drew Adams
2007-06-09 20:24 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-09 20:35 ` Drew Adams
2007-06-09 21:34 ` Juri Linkov
2007-06-10 15:02 ` Drew Adams
2007-06-10 23:24 ` Johan Bockgård
2007-06-11 9:44 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-11 17:21 ` Drew Adams
2007-06-13 8:07 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-13 8:07 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-10 13:18 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-10 15:15 ` Drew Adams
2007-06-11 3:40 ` Miles Bader
2007-06-11 5:32 ` Drew Adams
2007-06-11 9:44 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-11 9:50 ` David House
2007-06-11 17:30 ` Drew Adams
2007-06-08 7:11 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-08 7:26 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2007-06-08 8:15 ` Kim F. Storm
2007-06-08 9:42 ` David House
2007-06-09 9:45 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-08 8:11 ` Kim F. Storm
2007-06-08 8:38 ` Juri Linkov
2007-06-08 20:05 ` Dieter Wilhelm
2007-06-08 8:48 ` Nick Roberts [this message]
2007-06-06 21:57 ` Stephen Berman
2007-06-07 5:05 ` Werner LEMBERG
2007-06-10 8:35 ` Daniel Brockman
2007-06-10 14:27 ` Juri Linkov
2007-06-06 23:53 ` Jay Belanger
2007-06-07 0:07 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-07 0:08 ` Nick Roberts
2007-06-08 12:06 ` Alan Mackenzie
2007-06-07 8:23 ` tomas
2007-06-07 17:25 ` Alan Mackenzie
2007-06-08 8:26 ` tomas
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