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From: Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk
Subject: Re: copy-prev-word question RE: Bug report interface comments
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 11:48:10 +0200 (MET DST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200004110948.LAA04365@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: "Bart Schaefer"'s message of Tue, 11 Apr 2000 02:52:09 +0000


Bart Schaefer wrote:

> 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." 

;-) Everything is crystal clear now...

Back to the original question: should I commit the patch? With a
to-the-left-of-the-cursor manual as suggested by Oliver? Should I make 
it a separate widget? (Name? I can only think of copy-last-word which
is probably to easily confused with copy-prev-word and insert-last-word.)

Bye
 Sven


--
Sven Wischnowsky                         wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de


         reply	other threads:[~2000-04-11  9:48 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
2000-04-11  6:11   ` Andrej Borsenkow
2000-04-11  9:20   ` Oliver Kiddle
2000-04-11  9:48     ` Sven Wischnowsky [this message]
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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