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

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

Drew Adams wrote:
>     >>     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.)
>
> It is about terminology, but it not much about Emacs terminology. Any other
> app that let you talk about keys (e.g. bind them) would have the same
> terminological difficulty, because there is a canonical (X11) name for the
> key that is different from what is printed on the key itself.
>
> Node "Keys" or somewhere under node "Key Bindings" is where I think someone
> would try to look up what these keys are about and what they're called. `i
> key' takes you to node "Keys", for instance.
>
> Perhaps mention this in both places (Emacs Terminology and Keys or somewhere
> under Key Bindings), by using a cross reference?
>
> Also, we might add index entries for Page Up, Page Down, next, and prior
> (though `next' will probably get lots of hits), so someone can get to the
> explanation directly.
>   

Where is the information about keys needed to write the table?