From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: tabulated-list sort icon is reversed Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2018 22:09:58 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83a7qbtc6l.fsf@gnu.org> <83bmaqq735.fsf@gnu.org> <87d0v1lsns.fsf@fastmail.fm> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1533175722 22712 195.159.176.226 (2 Aug 2018 02:08:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2018 02:08:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Joost Kremers Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 02 04:08:38 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fl32Y-0005mA-HC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Aug 2018 04:08:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43576 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fl34f-0003yW-8d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Aug 2018 22:10:45 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56070) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fl344-0003yF-4s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Aug 2018 22:10:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fl343-0006Ic-4m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Aug 2018 22:10:08 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:58617) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fl33u-0006Do-FM; Wed, 01 Aug 2018 22:09:58 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fl33u-0002D0-3Q; Wed, 01 Aug 2018 22:09:58 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87d0v1lsns.fsf@fastmail.fm> (message from Joost Kremers on Wed, 01 Aug 2018 22:48:39 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:228100 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > My understanding of the discussion is that for some, a downward > pointing triangle indicates an ascending sort order, while for > others it indicates a descending sort order. Can anyone suggest an icon whose meaning would be clear? Perhaps < and >? Those two characters turned 90 degrees? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)