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- From: bevan@cs.man.ac.uk (Stephen J Bevan)
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- Subject: Re: scroll up/down
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- Date: 9 Jan 93 23:55:41 GMT
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- In-reply-to: davis@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu's message of 9 Jan 93 18:36:16 GMT
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- In article <DAVIS.93Jan9133616@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu> davis@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu ("John E. Davis") writes:
- I agree that emacs definition of scroll-up/down is backward. This is the
- reason that I chose to avoid the problem altogether for my JED editor. In
- JED, the analogous primitives are called `page_up' and `page_down'. Care to
- guess which does what?
-
- Ok here's my guess: "page_up" moves the page up so that you see the
- text on the _following_ page (vice versa for "page_down").
-
- On the other hand: "page_up" means "page upwards" which means that it
- moves to the text on the _previous_ page (vice versa for "page_down").
-
- Given that I find my first guess more natural, I'll leave you to guess
- which editor I use :-)
-
- bevan
-