From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Teemu Likonen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Proposal to improve the nomenclature of scrolling directions Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2012 17:39:16 +0200 Message-ID: <87vcdkoy8r.fsf@mithlond.arda> References: <83fw4p46nd.fsf@gnu.org> <83ehk94475.fsf@gnu.org> <83d2zt40p1.fsf@gnu.org> <87ehk8umhu.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1352129990 15313 80.91.229.3 (5 Nov 2012 15:39:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 15:39:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, lekktu@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, Dani Moncayo , Eli Zaretskii To: nix@esperi.org.uk Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 05 16:39:59 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TVOmK-00044g-GB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Nov 2012 16:39:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40902 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TVOmB-0006NU-Fe for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Nov 2012 10:39:47 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:33872) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TVOm4-0006NK-7S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Nov 2012 10:39:45 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TVOlz-0000WY-71 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Nov 2012 10:39:40 -0500 Original-Received: from mta-out.inet.fi ([195.156.147.13]:55458 helo=jenni1.inet.fi) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TVOls-0000Mq-CH; Mon, 05 Nov 2012 10:39:28 -0500 Original-Received: from mithlond.arda (84.251.134.110) by jenni1.inet.fi (8.5.140.03) id 508712A000BCA7E4; Mon, 5 Nov 2012 17:39:19 +0200 Original-Received: from dtw by mithlond.arda with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TVOlg-0000pP-L3; Mon, 05 Nov 2012 17:39:16 +0200 In-Reply-To: <87ehk8umhu.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix> (nix@esperi.org.uk's message of "Mon, 05 Nov 2012 14:56:29 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 195.156.147.13 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:154688 Archived-At: [2012-11-05 14:56:29 +0000] wrote: > And people universally refer to it as 'scrolling down'. That's right. Let's ask people in the net too: "scroll down" https://www.google.com/search?q=%22scroll+down%22 "scroll up" https://www.google.com/search?q=%22scroll+up%22 > Of every application I have used, only Emacs calls the action carried > out when you hit the page down key scrolling *up*. It still confuses > me every time I need to deal with it, and I've been using Emacsen for > twenty years now. I, too, think that Emacs is the only one which calls it this way.