From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why are <next> and <prior> not called <page down> and <page up>?
Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2006 09:05:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85y7t2zr2a.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EIENLHALHGIMHGDOLMIMIEACCLAA.drew.adams@oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Fri, 1 Sep 2006 15:31:43 -0700")
"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.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-02 7:05 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 [this message]
2006-09-02 7:53 ` Lennart Borgman
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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