From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nix Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Proposal to improve the nomenclature of scrolling directions Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2012 17:35:46 +0000 Message-ID: <87wqxwngjx.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix> References: <87a9uvv6ng.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87bof9s7cl.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix> <87390kv9z2.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <85fw4kz6to.fsf@member.fsf.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1352396163 10549 80.91.229.3 (8 Nov 2012 17:36:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2012 17:36:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 'Stephen Leake' , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 08 18:36:13 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 1TWW1P-0006Ii-Fj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Nov 2012 18:36:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60852 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TWW1G-0008BL-AE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Nov 2012 12:35:58 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:41035) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TWW18-0008As-3X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Nov 2012 12:35:55 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TWW16-0002Vz-6Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Nov 2012 12:35:50 -0500 Original-Received: from icebox.esperi.org.uk ([81.187.191.129]:41862 helo=mail.esperi.org.uk) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TWW15-0002Vv-TV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Nov 2012 12:35:48 -0500 Original-Received: from spindle.srvr.nix (nix@spindle.srvr.nix [192.168.14.15]) by mail.esperi.org.uk (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id qA8HZkkN012653; Thu, 8 Nov 2012 17:35:46 GMT Emacs: where editing text is like playing Paganini on a glass harmonica. In-Reply-To: (Drew Adams's message of "Thu, 8 Nov 2012 07:43:28 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-DCC-STAT_FI_X86_64_VIRTUAL-Metrics: spindle 1245; Body=3 Fuz1=3 Fuz2=3 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 81.187.191.129 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:154740 Archived-At: On 8 Nov 2012, Drew Adams said: > That such a non-issue rises to the top here occasionally suggests how little > Emacs must really need to be regrooved. This is one of the silliest ways we > could possibly want to spin our wheels looking for improvements. Quite. It's really not important. It confuses me once every three or four years: how terrible! (The last time was last year, when I was doing a little souping up of scroll-in-place. Hence my mention of it, which might with luck be a good thing to come out of this latest mostly useless nomenclature-pedantry thread. :) ) -- NULL && (void)