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

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

Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> Thanks, but then we are talking about different levels.  You refer to
>> a technical level.  I am more interested in what the user sees, the
>> physical keyboard.  I think it is easier to understand and remember for
>> users if we refer to the physical keyboard.  This is also very
>> standard today.
>>     
>
> But here you're bumping into a core design guideline of Emacs, which is to
> make things as transparent as possible: the internal names are generally
> both used internally (of course) and made visible to the end user.
> So changing the end user side will have impacts on the internal side as
> well, so it can't be changed as easily as you may think.
>
> Whether that's good or bad is up to you, but it's a bit late to change it,
>   
The principle to have things as transparent as possible is a good one, 
but so is to use understandable names for end users.

What is needed is a translation from the internal symbol names to 
physical keyboard key names in `single-key-description'. Such a 
translation should of course be possible to turn off.

Do you think this is a very big change? Does it disturb the transparency 
very much?