From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dani Moncayo Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Proposal to improve the nomenclature of scrolling directions Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 08:24:41 +0100 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1352100285 17803 80.91.229.3 (5 Nov 2012 07:24:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 07:24:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs development discussions To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 05 08:24:55 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 1TVH3G-0005PY-Pa for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Nov 2012 08:24:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38421 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TVH37-0004EP-J0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Nov 2012 02:24:45 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:46027) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TVH35-0004EK-In for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Nov 2012 02:24:44 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TVH34-0003og-ML for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Nov 2012 02:24:43 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-oa0-f41.google.com ([209.85.219.41]:41151) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TVH34-0003oS-HF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Nov 2012 02:24:42 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-oa0-f41.google.com with SMTP id k14so6080798oag.0 for ; Sun, 04 Nov 2012 23:24:41 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=Ko1YLC1iGrUtr8IZLMBkQV0ifg1OL8DaLpYTtp8NFwI=; b=V6X7bNT7SMh0m7ENCMvZiW0jI1WL4jfatbY1cY0YCXhWB3+NouW0WSqhOfzJQgsH8v NVsOlPAV6DTENNvcfXC7dU10lQ+SF/iy3PA64zGiTCvBdPRPdsR/sFr+RZyKV/NDhsPY jAcCxWcpxsQriBVVf7w953zkUqhdMZ+vVykeCUFNdvNHbaWpIPgjsuMRO0kNi7BGOp9g V1aXxmnMxJ2WF8JcaC2h9b8FOtPPpAo0Vwnfh/Hju9Ikk6J9eCwkoY9w6dHcWOas9o+e 9gnlz5KPIHs9JaNd3u62C3hIEjo8ptn+lZIxgxtg9vItH8iwhrIvgu6WZ8odp/G7oMlu Ybkw== Original-Received: by 10.60.27.68 with SMTP id r4mr7073878oeg.53.1352100281852; Sun, 04 Nov 2012 23:24:41 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.60.131.168 with HTTP; Sun, 4 Nov 2012 23:24:41 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 209.85.219.41 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:154680 Archived-At: >>> We could fix that by explicitly mentioning it's vertical scrolling. >> Yes, but I guess we all agree that "up" is a cleaner, shorter and thus >> better name than "vertical backward". > > Except that up/down bring with them the ambiguity. "up"/"down" alone are ambiguous, of course. But I wasn't proposing them alone. I was including also the part that is moving ("view" or whatever name describes the view port). Anyway, I think I've repeated my POV several times already, so I'll give up on this. -- Dani Moncayo