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From: "Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@candle.brasslantern.com>
To: Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de>,
	zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk
Subject: Re: copy-prev-word question RE: Bug report interface comments
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 02:52:09 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1000411025209.ZM31402@candle.brasslantern.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200004100758.JAA31384@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de>

On Apr 10,  9:58am, Sven Wischnowsky wrote:
} Subject: Re: copy-prev-word question RE: Bug report interface comments
}
} And the maual was wrong, wasn't it?
} 
} -Duplicate the word behind the cursor.
} +Duplicate the word before the cursor.

Behind in space, before in time.  What is left behind has gone before,
but what lies ahead is still before us, and the part after this is even
more confusing after I've written it.

This is what we English speakers get for muddling our temporal-spacial
relationships:  We're always getting ahead of ourselves, and no one else
can tell whether we're coming or going.

So "behind the cursor" is to the left of it (unless you're writing in
Hebrew or Aramaic or something) and I think the doc was correct before,
or rather it was correct "behind." 

And now you're probably all after me.

-- 
Bart Schaefer                                 Brass Lantern Enterprises
http://www.well.com/user/barts              http://www.brasslantern.com


  reply	other threads:[~2000-04-11  2:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-04-10  7:58 Sven Wischnowsky
2000-04-11  2:52 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2000-04-11  6:11   ` Andrej Borsenkow
2000-04-11  9:20   ` Oliver Kiddle
2000-04-11  9:48     ` Sven Wischnowsky
2000-04-11 15:25       ` Bart Schaefer
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-04-06  8:24 Sven Wischnowsky
2000-04-04  9:19 Sven Wischnowsky
2000-04-04  9:29 ` copy-prev-word question " Andrej Borsenkow

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