From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: grischka Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs learning curve Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 20:29:22 +0200 Message-ID: <4C3CB082.40608@gmx.de> References: 81A760E619C64426AEA8EF70A3A8A783@us.oracle.com <4C3B6A8A.80105@gmx.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1279045793 21441 80.91.229.12 (13 Jul 2010 18:29:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:29:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 13 20:29:52 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OYkEp-0004wj-Jo for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 20:29:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46417 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OYkEj-0000JL-OQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 14:29:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=47074 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OYkEZ-0000IJ-9I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 14:29:40 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OYkEW-0000yc-5y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 14:29:33 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:47052) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OYkEV-0000wn-Oy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 14:29:32 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 13 Jul 2010 18:29:29 -0000 Original-Received: from 184.121.113.82.net.de.o2.com (EHLO [10.54.17.152]) [82.113.121.184] by mail.gmx.net (mp023) with SMTP; 13 Jul 2010 20:29:29 +0200 X-Authenticated: #18588216 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX192kn5pvJR20o8wuoZUR1Z91h9yjZz4Lj3h7ME/Bw dYUrYtmKesghMn User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) In-Reply-To: X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:127204 Archived-At: Richard Stallman wrote: > Or use "scroll-up" where it means scroll down, or use "split-horizontally" > where it splits vertically ;) > > These names are used because they are logical. scroll-down scrolls > down through the text, and split-horizontally makes two windows that > are horizontal neighbors. Sure, given this information it makes sense. It is just that the same thing called "split-vertically" makes sense even without further information ;) --- grischka