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- From: shibuya@bl.applicon.slb.com (Hiroto Shibuya)
- Subject: scroll up/down
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- Organization: Applicon; Billerica, MA (USA)
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 00:58:20 GMT
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- I just came across a fundamental difference between Emacs and VI,
- which I never noticed for a decade.
-
- THEY SCROLL UP/DOWN IN DIFFERENT DIRECTION!
-
- Emacs command "scroll-up" scroll the text up so you see the text
- further down. VI command ^U, is described in the manual as "scroll
- up", which scroll the text down so you see the text further up.
-
- What bothers me is that my dear Emacs acted the different way I
- thought it would. I always thought scrolling down is going toward the
- end of document. I never bothered to lookup which command was doing
- which. (well, who does M-x scroll-down/up to scroll?) This is a big
- blow in my religous belief.
-
- Anyway, I'm curious how the other text editors define the direction
- "SCROLL UP/DOWN". Could you mail me how other text editor behave?
- I'm only concerned about SCROLL UP/DOWN. I think something like
- NEXT/PREV PAGE, SCROLL FORWARD/BACKWARD, MOVE FORWARD/BACKWARD are (I
- think) without controversy. Maybe something like MOVE UP/DOWN is
- equally unbiguous, but let's just stick to scroll. It can be literal
- command "scroll up/down" you can type in, as you can in Emacs, or
- description of key binding in manual/online help.
-
- If it turns out that VI is the only one goes the opposite direction,
- then it will help me regain my religious faith, and shake off my vi
- loving neighbor who is bothering me on this.
- --
- Hiroto Shibuya
-
- Applicon Inc.
- Billerica, MA
- U.S.A.
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