7:22:11jackdaniellooking at comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28825307 -- "how do you tell the rust programmer from other people?" - "he will tell you."
8:13:32jackdanielscymtym: I was contemplating w-r-f-g and I came to the conclusion that the interpretation I've proposed is wrong (and that having the origin at the cursor position is the desired state of affairs) -- w-r-f-g is specified in "mixing text and graphics" so it is expected to inline graphics (inline vs block element in html terms)
8:13:43jackdanielif took in this light then the first quadrant makes perfect sense I suppose