From: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo@gmail.com>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Proposal to improve the nomenclature of scrolling directions
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 13:25:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH8Pv0jggOcgLYyfoOs8+1NjQfk2Pzpdj1MhS4OOz4BhD0q4dQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1TVKWU-0001es-G2@fencepost.gnu.org>
> What "widely accepted approach"? Most applications don't have names
> for the commands invoked by keys, they just use "PageDown" the key
> name.
>
> Do they generally agree on which direction "PageDown" should scroll?
Yes. Popular web browsers and text processors interpret "PageDown" as
"show the next page".
Therefore, "up" and "down" refer to the view port (not the text).
That convention is the opposite of the one currently used in Emacs.
> If so, that would seem to be a general convention for the meaning
> of "down" for scrolling.
Yes, and my proposal tried to be both unambiguous (including "view" as
part of the new commands' names, e.g. `scroll-view-down') and
consistent with that convention (all scroll commands would follow the
same pattern).
--
Dani Moncayo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-05 12:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 97+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-04 14:10 Proposal to improve the nomenclature of scrolling directions Dani Moncayo
2012-11-04 14:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-11-04 15:00 ` Dani Moncayo
2012-11-04 17:07 ` Juanma Barranquero
2012-11-04 17:30 ` Dani Moncayo
2012-11-04 17:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-04 17:35 ` Dani Moncayo
2012-11-04 18:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-04 19:10 ` Dani Moncayo
2012-11-04 19:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-04 20:01 ` Dani Moncayo
2012-11-05 11:07 ` Richard Stallman
2012-11-05 12:25 ` Dani Moncayo [this message]
2012-11-05 14:56 ` Nix
2012-11-05 15:39 ` Teemu Likonen
2012-11-07 8:12 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2012-11-13 9:05 ` Bastien
2012-11-13 17:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-11-05 3:29 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-11-05 7:27 ` Dani Moncayo
2012-11-05 12:44 ` Jambunathan K
2012-11-05 2:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-11-05 7:24 ` Dani Moncayo
2012-11-05 23:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-11-06 21:29 ` Daniel Hackney
2012-11-05 11:06 ` Richard Stallman
2012-11-05 15:00 ` Nix
2012-11-06 1:25 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-11-06 17:24 ` Adrian Robert
2012-11-06 17:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-06 17:50 ` Drew Adams
2012-11-06 19:14 ` John Yates
2012-11-05 18:05 ` Daniel Hackney
2012-11-06 1:53 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-11-07 16:31 ` Nix
2012-11-08 1:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-11-08 17:33 ` Nix
2012-11-08 18:14 ` Eli Barzilay
2012-11-08 18:18 ` Nix
2012-11-08 18:39 ` Eli Barzilay
2012-11-08 18:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-11-09 9:50 ` martin rudalics
2012-11-09 14:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-11-08 18:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-08 18:48 ` Juanma Barranquero
2012-11-08 19:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-09 2:52 ` Richard Stallman
2012-11-09 7:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-09 14:20 ` Nix
2012-11-09 14:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-09 20:24 ` Nix
2012-11-10 11:09 ` martin rudalics
2012-11-10 11:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-10 14:11 ` martin rudalics
2012-11-10 0:13 ` Richard Stallman
2012-11-10 7:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-10 11:09 ` martin rudalics
2012-11-10 11:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-10 11:48 ` Nix
2012-11-10 14:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-10 14:47 ` Nix
2012-11-10 14:10 ` martin rudalics
2012-11-10 14:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-10 18:50 ` martin rudalics
2012-11-10 19:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-10 11:10 ` martin rudalics
2012-11-10 11:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-10 14:12 ` martin rudalics
2012-11-09 9:51 ` martin rudalics
2012-11-09 14:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-11-10 11:05 ` martin rudalics
2012-11-08 7:18 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-11-08 11:12 ` Stephen Leake
2012-11-08 15:43 ` Drew Adams
2012-11-08 17:35 ` Nix
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-11-06 17:55 Dmitry Gutov
2012-11-07 0:53 ` Richard Stallman
2012-11-07 15:17 ` Drew Adams
2012-11-07 16:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-07 18:03 ` Drew Adams
2012-11-07 18:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-07 21:00 ` Drew Adams
2012-11-07 21:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-08 22:18 ` Daniel Hackney
2012-11-07 21:12 ` Mathias Dahl
2012-11-07 21:41 ` Dmitry Gutov
2012-11-08 19:26 ` Bruce Korb
2012-11-13 9:07 ` Bastien
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[not found] ` <20635.16010.769769.433949@winooski.ccs.neu.edu>
2012-11-08 16:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-11-09 9:50 ` martin rudalics
2012-11-09 14:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-11-09 15:27 ` Eli Barzilay
2012-11-10 11:05 ` martin rudalics
2012-11-10 11:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-10 14:09 ` martin rudalics
2012-11-10 14:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-10 18:49 ` martin rudalics
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