From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: display.texi: (,) isn't documented. Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 17:40:55 +0200 Message-ID: <46682707.6050107@gmail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1181230903 5698 80.91.229.12 (7 Jun 2007 15:41:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 15:41:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 07 17:41:41 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HwK7F-0006ph-PV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Jun 2007 17:41:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HwK7F-0005pl-BI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Jun 2007 11:41:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HwK6h-0005et-UM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jun 2007 11:41:04 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HwK6g-0005e8-FE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jun 2007 11:41:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HwK6f-0005dv-Ul for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jun 2007 11:41:02 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.212]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HwK6f-0004kD-E6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jun 2007 11:41:01 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-133-189.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.133.189]:60717 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.66) (envelope-from ) id 1HwK6d-00025S-4j; Thu, 07 Jun 2007 17:41:00 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070326 Thunderbird/2.0.0.0 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 000748-0, 2007-06-07), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.133.189 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1HwK6d-00025S-4j. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1HwK6d-00025S-4j e66e34a16e761f7a66dd075402717d8d X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:72417 Archived-At: Drew Adams wrote: >>> column only - 67x >>> line only - 234y >>> line & column - 67x234y >> It's abnormal to put the column first (for example compiler error >> messages), so this would be confusing. > > We could certainly decide on either order, but I cannot imagine that 234y67x > is more universal or less "abnormal" than 67x234y. Putting the most significant part first is more common AFAICS. That is the way we write numbers, for example.