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Article #2990Re: scroll up/down
From: Stephen J Bevan
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 23:55
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 23:55
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In article <DAVIS.93Jan9133616@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu> davis@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu ("John E. Davis") writes:
I agree that emacs definition of scroll-up/down is backward. This is the
reason that I chose to avoid the problem altogether for my JED editor. In
JED, the analogous primitives are called `page_up' and `page_down'. Care to
guess which does what?
Ok here's my guess: "page_up" moves the page up so that you see the
text on the _following_ page (vice versa for "page_down").
On the other hand: "page_up" means "page upwards" which means that it
moves to the text on the _previous_ page (vice versa for "page_down").
Given that I find my first guess more natural, I'll leave you to guess
which editor I use :-)
bevan
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!pipex!warwick!uknet!mucs!m1!bevan From: bevan@cs.man.ac.uk (Stephen J Bevan) Newsgroups: comp.editors,alt.religion.emacs Subject: Re: scroll up/down Message-ID: <BEVAN.93Jan9235541@panda.cs.man.ac.uk> Date: 9 Jan 93 23:55:41 GMT References: <SHIBUYA.93Jan7195820@chute.bl.applicon.slb.com> <FRIEDMAN.93Jan8021040@nutrimat.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <HUTTAR.93Jan9042626@hp750.itg.ti.com> <DAVIS.93Jan9133616@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu> Sender: news@cs.man.ac.uk Followup-To: comp.editors Distribution: inet Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester Lines: 16 In-reply-to: davis@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu's message of 9 Jan 93 18:36:16 GMT