From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harald Hanche-Olsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Proposal to improve the nomenclature of scrolling directions Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2012 09:12:25 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <20121107.091225.1379093408169018283.hanche@math.ntnu.no> References: <87ehk8umhu.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1352275969 9230 80.91.229.3 (7 Nov 2012 08:12:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2012 08:12:49 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 07 09:12:54 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TW0ki-0004Pa-Ht for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Nov 2012 09:12:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35190 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TW0kZ-0003FZ-9X for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Nov 2012 03:12:39 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:44362) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TW0kT-0003EJ-O2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Nov 2012 03:12:37 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TW0kS-0005jp-JG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Nov 2012 03:12:33 -0500 Original-Received: from hylle02.itea.ntnu.no ([129.241.56.101]:36386) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TW0kS-0005jE-CH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Nov 2012 03:12:32 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hylle02.itea.ntnu.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51A742C0F0 for ; Wed, 7 Nov 2012 09:12:25 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at hylle02.itea.ntnu.no Original-Received: from localhost (6.225.34.95.customer.cdi.no [95.34.225.6]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: hanche) by hylle02.itea.ntnu.no (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 06E202C0F6 for ; Wed, 7 Nov 2012 09:12:24 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <87ehk8umhu.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix> X-URL: http://www.math.ntnu.no/~hanche/ X-Mailer: Mew version 6.5 on Emacs 24.2.50 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 129.241.56.101 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:154711 Archived-At: [Nix (2012-11-05 14:56:29 UTC)] > Of every > application I have used, only Emacs calls the action carried out when > you hit the page down key scrolling *up*. It still confuses me every > time I need to deal with it, and I've been using Emacsen for twenty > years now. I don't use C-x < and C-x > very often, but when I do, I *always* get the direction wrong. Surely, the same issue is at play here. But I'll stop whining right now and just insert code in .emacs to swap the two key bindings. I just couldn't resist this opportunity to participate in some good bike shedding. - Harald