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In article <SHIBUYA.93Jan7195820@chute.bl.applicon.slb.com> shibuya@bl.applicon.slb.com writes:
>I just came across a fundamental difference between Emacs and VI,
>which I never noticed for a decade.  
>
>THEY SCROLL UP/DOWN IN DIFFERENT DIRECTION!
>
>Emacs command "scroll-up" scroll the text up so you see the text
>further down.  VI command ^U, is described in the manual as "scroll
>up", which scroll the text down so you see the text further up.
>
>What bothers me is that my dear Emacs acted the different way I
>thought it would.  I always thought scrolling down is going toward the
>end of document.  I never bothered to lookup which command was doing
>which. (well, who does M-x scroll-down/up to scroll?)  This is a big
>blow in my religous belief.
>

Well, to be a purist about it, think about the actual analogy to a
papyrus scroll, with the rods above and below the screen.  When you
move to the end of the document, the papyrus is moving up, right?
Thus, by analogy, scrolling a document up means going to the end.

If you're reading a long scroll, you're going to move the
paper/papyrus, not your head, right?  Scrolling _down_ to the end
implies that the _reader_ is moving.  More blasphemy from the vi camp.

>If it turns out that VI is the only one goes the opposite direction,
>then it will help me regain my religious faith, and shake off my vi
>loving neighbor who is bothering me on this.  

Tell your neighbor to invest in a scroll and see which way _he_ moves
the paper.  Unless vi priests also force their supplicants to _write_
upside-down... 

--
Tim Lesher <lesher@bucknell.edu>