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Re: Emacs learning curve
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Miles Bader |
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Re: Emacs learning curve |
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Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:52:56 +0900 |
Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> Since Emacs has scroll bars, and no hand pointers, it would be more
> consistent today if the scroll commands were named identifying with
> the view. The change could be made compatibly by choosing new names
> such as scroll-view-down and scroll-view-up.
>
> Still, I am not sure it is worth the transient. Ordinary use of Emacs
> doesn't involve knowing the names of these commands, so I don't think
> they could be a real obstacle to learning to use it.
Even it's not worth any real "change", I think just adding the more
explicitly named command names (with the non-explicit names as aliases)
would be generally very useful for people that want to bind them
themselves or use them in lisp. Despite using emacs for decades, I'm
_still_ a little confused by the direction of "scroll-up"... :O (which I
suppose confirms your point that nobody actually looks at them :).
-Miles
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- Re: Emacs learning curve, (continued)
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