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From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>
Cc: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why are <next> and <prior> not called <page down> and <page up>?
Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2006 09:53:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44F93862.9070004@student.lu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <85y7t2zr2a.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>

David Kastrup wrote:
> "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
>
>   
>>     May I then suggest a little smaller change for this instead? Could we
>>     have a human readable table with translations from internal key names
>>     like <paste>, <next> to standard keyboard names? Just those names that
>>     differ should go into the table of course.
>>
>> That's a good suggestion. It should be phrased in terms of "often
>> used as labels on many keyboards" etc., to avoid giving the
>> impression that this is standard; it is common among many keyboards,
>> but it is by no means standard (there is no standard for such labels
>> AFAIK).
>>     
>
> Maybe the "Emacs terminology" info page is a reasonable place for
> that?  It is not really Emacs terminology, but people might look for
> it there.
>   

That is fine for me. (And I think it is about Emacs terminology.)

  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-02  7:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-31 15:57 Why are <next> and <prior> not called <page down> and <page up>? Lennart Borgman
2006-08-31 16:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-08-31 17:09   ` Jason Rumney
2006-08-31 18:55     ` Lennart Borgman
2006-08-31 20:34       ` Drew Adams
2006-08-31 20:45         ` Lennart Borgman
2006-08-31 21:10           ` Drew Adams
2006-08-31 21:31             ` Lennart Borgman
2006-08-31 22:00               ` Drew Adams
2006-08-31 22:19                 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-09-01  2:06                   ` Stefan Monnier
2006-09-01  5:08                     ` Lennart Borgman
2006-09-01  6:29                       ` Lennart Borgman
2006-09-01 17:00                       ` Stefan Monnier
2006-09-01  0:47         ` David Abrahams
2006-09-01  9:12       ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-09-01 21:57         ` Lennart Borgman
2006-09-01 22:31           ` Drew Adams
2006-09-02  7:05             ` David Kastrup
2006-09-02  7:53               ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2006-09-02 13:46                 ` Drew Adams
2006-09-03 14:53                   ` Lennart Borgman
2006-09-03 15:49                     ` Drew Adams
2006-09-02 21:49           ` Jason Rumney
2006-09-03 14:52             ` Lennart Borgman
2006-09-05 20:06               ` Kevin Rodgers

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