From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: why not allow an argument to just-one-space? Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 11:24:51 -0700 Message-ID: <34fvjlF48inneU1@individual.net> References: <87u1d9n60f.fsf@jidanni.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1105382671 17523 80.91.229.6 (10 Jan 2005 18:44:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 18:44:31 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 10 19:44:15 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Co4WU-00078j-00 for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 19:44:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Co4i0-00018N-Hi for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 13:56:08 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Co4c0-0007hW-Rq for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 13:49:57 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Co4bn-0007ac-CO for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 13:49:47 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Co4bl-0007Ug-PJ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 13:49:41 -0500 Original-Received: from [130.59.10.2] (helo=chx400.switch.ch) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1Co4Dp-0008B1-69 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 13:24:57 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.fu-berlin.de ([130.133.1.2]) by chx400.switch.ch with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1Co4Dm-0003Ew-00 for gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 19:24:54 +0100 Original-Received: by Mail.FU-Berlin.DE (Exim 4.42) from curry.zedat.fu-berlin.de ([160.45.10.36]) for gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org with esmtp id <1Co4Dl-000FCu-Sl>; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 19:24:54 +0100 Original-Received: by Curry.ZEDAT.FU-Berlin.DE (Smail3.2.0.98) from news.uni-berlin.de with bsmtp id ; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 19:24:53 +0100 (MET) Original-To: gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org Original-Path: individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Original-Lines: 20 X-Orig-X-Trace: individual.net /IyCOUmCRX80kNY8xw/zWQrj3+uLM/tKRudkQWQgBk+f+fbL4= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041105) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:10364 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:10364 Dan Jacobson wrote: > 1 year, 39 weeks ago "Dan" == Dan Jacobson writes: > Dan> Why not allow an argument to just-one-space, so it can be just two > Dan> spaces, etc.? > > Brilliant idea. I'll second that. Why, just today I wanted four > spaces. Don't suppose this one is a priority for the globe trotting > authors. Especially if somebody then posts some 'advice', blurring > the urge for a permanent enhancement. DIY: (defadvice just-one-space (after prefix-arg (&optional n) activate) "With a prefix arg, leave that many spaces." (interactive "p") (when (> n 1) (insert (make-string (1- n) ?\ )))) -- Kevin Rodgers