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Re: scroll-*-aggressively
From: |
Chong Yidong |
Subject: |
Re: scroll-*-aggressively |
Date: |
Sat, 26 Mar 2011 12:20:59 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> 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".