From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Uday S Reddy Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs learning curve Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:03:42 +0100 Message-ID: References: <4C3B6A8A.80105@gmx.de> <87r5j7lbg7.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1279040651 1743 80.91.229.12 (13 Jul 2010 17:04:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:04:11 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 13 19:04:09 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OYitr-0008Qy-5e for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:04:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36800 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OYitq-0004q2-KT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 13:04:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=52092 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OYitk-0004nm-Si for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 13:04:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OYitj-0004x4-6X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 13:04:00 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:49636) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OYitj-0004ww-1G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 13:03:59 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OYitg-0008Nu-OJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:03:56 +0200 Original-Received: from cpc10-harb6-0-0-cust112.perr.cable.virginmedia.com ([92.232.137.113]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:03:56 +0200 Original-Received: from u.s.reddy by cpc10-harb6-0-0-cust112.perr.cable.virginmedia.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:03:56 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cpc10-harb6-0-0-cust112.perr.cable.virginmedia.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.4) Gecko/20100608 Thunderbird/3.1 In-Reply-To: <87r5j7lbg7.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:127199 Archived-At: On 7/13/2010 3:10 PM, David Kastrup wrote: >> These names are used because they are logical. scroll-down scrolls >> down through the text, > > No, it doesn't. It scrolls the text down, moving _up_ through the text > in the process. So it is "scroll down" but at the same time "scroll up > through". What a cool exchange! I suppose the youngsters can be excused for thinking we are all loonies. Uday