[Top][All Lists]
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: display.texi: (<line>,<col>) isn't documented.
From: |
Nick Roberts |
Subject: |
Re: display.texi: (<line>,<col>) isn't documented. |
Date: |
Fri, 8 Jun 2007 20:48:24 +1200 |
> > Maybe this confusion arises from the fact that currently numbers are
> > displayed in the order reverse to usual, where the first number in
> > a pair of coordinates corresponds to the x-axis (Columns), and second -
> > to the y-axis (Lines).
> >
> > That is a good point. Do people think we should swap them?
>
> Please don't.
>
> When I introduced the new (L,C) format, I looked at a number of other
> text editors, and they all have line number followed by column number.
> So that is the conventional sequence.
I agree. It is confusing, but note that order is not reverse to usual because,
as David Kastrup pointed out, the 'y' axis points downward. If you think of
the display as a matrix, then the conventional order *is* row-column (Aij).
However, I think the format should change, because (L,C) looks like a
co-ordinate.
--
Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob
- Re: display.texi: (<line>,<col>) isn't documented., (continued)
- Re: display.texi: (<line>,<col>) isn't documented., David House, 2007/06/11
- RE: display.texi: (<line>,<col>) isn't documented., Drew Adams, 2007/06/11
- Re: display.texi: (<line>,<col>) isn't documented., Richard Stallman, 2007/06/08
- Re: display.texi: (<line>,<col>) isn't documented., Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2007/06/08
- Re: display.texi: (<line>,<col>) isn't documented., Kim F. Storm, 2007/06/08
- Re: display.texi: (<line>,<col>) isn't documented., David House, 2007/06/08
- Re: display.texi: (<line>,<col>) isn't documented., Richard Stallman, 2007/06/09
- Re: display.texi: (<line>,<col>) isn't documented., Kim F. Storm, 2007/06/08
- Re: display.texi: (<line>,<col>) isn't documented., Juri Linkov, 2007/06/08
- Re: display.texi: (<line>,<col>) isn't documented., Dieter Wilhelm, 2007/06/08
- Re: display.texi: (<line>,<col>) isn't documented.,
Nick Roberts <=
- Re: display.texi: (<line>,<col>) isn't documented., Stephen Berman, 2007/06/06
- Re: display.texi: (<line>,<col>) isn't documented., Werner LEMBERG, 2007/06/07
- Re: display.texi: (<line>,<col>) isn't documented., Daniel Brockman, 2007/06/10
- Re: display.texi: (<line>,<col>) isn't documented., Juri Linkov, 2007/06/10
Re: display.texi: (<line>,<col>) isn't documented., Jay Belanger, 2007/06/06
Re: display.texi: (<line>,<col>) isn't documented., Alan Mackenzie, 2007/06/08
Re: display.texi: (<line>,<col>) isn't documented., tomas, 2007/06/07