From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: display.texi: (,) isn't documented. Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 02:07:51 +0200 Message-ID: <856460ocdk.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <20070605231947.GA2058@muc.de> <87r6oovdve.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1181174890 2293 80.91.229.12 (7 Jun 2007 00:08:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 00:08:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: jay.p.belanger@gmail.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 07 02:08:07 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 1Hw5Xp-00074R-DC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Jun 2007 02:08:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hw5Xp-0006V8-0P for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Jun 2007 20:08:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hw5Xk-0006Tg-12 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jun 2007 20:08:00 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hw5Xi-0006T4-Dg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jun 2007 20:07:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hw5Xi-0006T1-Av for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jun 2007 20:07:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-10.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.50]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Hw5Xh-000235-TW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jun 2007 20:07:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-01-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-05-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.17]) by mail-in-10.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CC431F5EE8; Thu, 7 Jun 2007 02:07:56 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail-in-06.arcor-online.net (mail-in-06.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.46]) by mail-in-01-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A6AE2DAB40; Thu, 7 Jun 2007 02:07:56 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-023-131.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.23.131]) by mail-in-06.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3997735E5AB; Thu, 7 Jun 2007 02:07:56 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 3D70F1C2FE53; Thu, 7 Jun 2007 02:07:52 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <87r6oovdve.fsf@gmail.com> (Jay Belanger's message of "Wed\, 06 Jun 2007 18\:53\:41 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:72393 Archived-At: Jay Belanger writes: > Richard Stallman writes: > >> I'm not sure what's so good about this, since "(561,2)" needs just as >> much space as "L561 C2" and seems less consistent. >> >> I think I thought it would be more natural as a way to state >> two-dimensional coordinates. > > Although the coordinates are backwards from the usual (x,y) > coordinates. No, just turned by 90 degrees: (x,y) progresses to (right,up), while (row,column) progresses (down,right). -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum