Re: Why are <next> and <prior> not called <page down> and <page up>?

[Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>]

Drew Adams wrote:
>     > <prior> and <next> are standard names, which means that users
>     > can find things out about them (e.g. Google).
>
>     Are you seriously saying that it is more simple to find something about
>     the usage of these keys if you use "next" than "page down"?
>
> Well, I don't know whether it is easier to search for one or the other. The
> point is that one is a standard name, so _if_ you can find doc on it then
> you have found doc about many things (e.g. apps) involving that key.
>   
Can you please explain what standard you refer to?

> And? Most users don't know that the `left' key is the left-arrow either.
> Should we call it `<-'?
>   
Are they not mostly called "left arrow" etc? Talking about them together 
as just "up, down, left, right" makes it rather easy to understand I 
guess. At least that was the case for me.

> With your argument, we would not distinguish numeric keypad keys from the
> identically labeled keys on the main keyboard pad. The keyboard labels only
> get you so far; they don't get you to any technical info on the key
> definitions (standard), and they aren't even sufficient to uniquely identify
> keys.
>   
Good point, but maybe stretched to far. Of course we should be clear enough.

> And what about all the variants of the TAB key (ISO this and that, <tab> vs
> C-i, etc.)? In terms of key labels, they might all be labeled "Tab", but
> Emacs users must sometimes distinguish them.
>   
Are you not mixing different levels here? Can't we be clear enough by 
just talking about the physical keyboard?