Re: Proposal to improve the nomenclature of scrolling directions

[Teemu Likonen]

<address@hidden> [2012-11-05 14:56:29 +0000] wrote:

> And people universally refer to it as 'scrolling down'.

That's right. Let's ask people in the net too:

    "scroll down"
    https://www.google.com/search?q=%22scroll+down%22

    "scroll up"
    https://www.google.com/search?q=%22scroll+up%22

> Of every application I have used, only Emacs calls the action carried
> out when you hit the page down key scrolling *up*. It still confuses
> me every time I need to deal with it, and I've been using Emacsen for
> twenty years now.

I, too, think that Emacs is the only one which calls it this way.