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Re: Why are <next> and <prior> not called <page down> and <page up>?


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: Why are <next> and <prior> not called <page down> and <page up>?
Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2006 09:05:33 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux)

"Drew Adams" <address@hidden> writes:

>     May I then suggest a little smaller change for this instead? Could we
>     have a human readable table with translations from internal key names
>     like <paste>, <next> to standard keyboard names? Just those names that
>     differ should go into the table of course.
>
> That's a good suggestion. It should be phrased in terms of "often
> used as labels on many keyboards" etc., to avoid giving the
> impression that this is standard; it is common among many keyboards,
> but it is by no means standard (there is no standard for such labels
> AFAIK).

Maybe the "Emacs terminology" info page is a reasonable place for
that?  It is not really Emacs terminology, but people might look for
it there.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum




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