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- From: lesher@acrux.cs.bucknell.edu (T. Lesher)
- Newsgroups: comp.editors,alt.religion.computers,alt.religion.emacs
- Subject: Re: scroll up/down
- Date: 8 Jan 1993 03:39:35 GMT
- Organization: Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
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- In article <SHIBUYA.93Jan7195820@chute.bl.applicon.slb.com> shibuya@bl.applicon.slb.com writes:
- >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.
- >
-
- Well, to be a purist about it, think about the actual analogy to a
- papyrus scroll, with the rods above and below the screen. When you
- move to the end of the document, the papyrus is moving up, right?
- Thus, by analogy, scrolling a document up means going to the end.
-
- If you're reading a long scroll, you're going to move the
- paper/papyrus, not your head, right? Scrolling _down_ to the end
- implies that the _reader_ is moving. More blasphemy from the vi camp.
-
- >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.
-
- Tell your neighbor to invest in a scroll and see which way _he_ moves
- the paper. Unless vi priests also force their supplicants to _write_
- upside-down...
-
- --
- Tim Lesher <lesher@bucknell.edu>
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