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Re: arrow keys vs. C-f/b/n/p


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: arrow keys vs. C-f/b/n/p
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 22:38:17 +0300

> From: Lennart Borgman <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 20:49:04 +0200
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> >> From what I read it seems to me that "logical" should mean "human
> >> reading order", not the buffer character order.
> >
> > These two orders are identical.  The reason is that people type text
> > in the order they read it.  "Logical order" just means we store text
> > in the same order as it is read and typed.
> >
> >> I guess they are the same here, but that is an implementation detail
> >
> > No, it's not an implementation detail.  Emacs stores text in files,
> > and those files also use the logical order.  As soon as text is saved
> > on a file, the order of characters is not longer internal to Emacs.
> 
> Is not this is precisely what makes it an implementation detail?

No.




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