From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: scroll-*-aggressively
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 12:20:59 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yyxr59tontg.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83sjuarl2u.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 26 Mar 2011 16:51:53 +0200")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> But this is all backwards, isn't it? "Scrolling up" in this context
> means moving point towards larger values, e.g. with C-n or <down>
> arrow, which scrolls the _text_ (not the window) up. Moreover, when
> point goes off the window's bottom with C-p, the new point is
> positioned `scroll-up-aggressively' parts of the window height from
> the window _bottom_, not from its top. IOW, the above description
> confuses "up" with "down".
>
> Am I missing something?
It's a mistake in the manual, indeed. I checked in a fix to emacs-23.
BTW, I think we should replace ye olde "scroll-up" and "scroll-down"
terminology with "scroll-forward" and "scroll-backward".
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-26 16:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-26 14:51 scroll-*-aggressively Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-26 16:20 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2011-03-26 16:40 ` scroll-*-aggressively Óscar Fuentes
2011-03-26 16:40 ` proposal to rename scrolling directions up/down as forward/backward [was: scroll-*-aggressively] Drew Adams
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