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bug#8121: Error in built-in tutorial?


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: bug#8121: Error in built-in tutorial?
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2011 16:50:49 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux)

> C-h k C-v   ->    C-v runs the command scroll-up
> C-h k M-v   ->    M-v runs the command scroll-down

> "Scrolling up" moves text up the screen, which has the effect of
> advancing you forwards through a document.

We should try and fix this confusion.  Emacs's nomenclature is not
non-sensical, but if someone tells me he's "scrolling down the
document", it means he's moving point towards the end, not
the opposite.  So the problem is that up/down is not unambiguous and we
should use other words.  E.g. scroll-towards-end or scroll-towards-beginning.

Similar issues hold for split-window-(horizont|vertic)ally.


        Stefan





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