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From: michael@cadilhac.name (Michaël Cadilhac)
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: keep|flush-lines, how-many to be used backward.
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 19:42:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <873ax4ufhw.fsf@cadilhac.name> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BNELLINCGFJLDJIKDGACAEBECDAA.drew.adams@oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Mon, 24 Sep 2007 10:27:04 -0700")


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"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

>> I've been using this for a few days, and I find it quite useful.
>> It may be good to install. The effect: C-u M-x how-many RET is
>> how-many'ing in the text *before* point.  Same for C-u M-x keep-lines.
>
> Dunno. Why do you find that very useful? It's only one more keystroke to do
> without it: `C-SPC M-<' instead of `C-u'. (Admittedly, that's a complex
> keystroke, involving Shift on many keyboards.)

Well, I don't have this Transient-mark-mode thingy enabled.  So I must
type C-SPC C-SPC M-< then C-x C-x to return to the point (I mostly use
`how-many'), then C-g to remove this BSOD-like Transient mark.  For me,
its

C-SPC C-SPC M-< [...] C-x C-x C-g     versus     C-u [...]

That simple :-)

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-24 17:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-24 16:08 keep|flush-lines, how-many to be used backward Michaël Cadilhac
2007-09-24 17:27 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-24 17:42   ` Michaël Cadilhac [this message]
2007-09-25 14:10     ` Stefan Monnier
2007-09-25 14:36       ` Michaël Cadilhac
2007-09-26  5:01         ` Stefan Monnier
2007-09-25 10:44 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-25 20:39 ` Michaël Cadilhac
2007-09-25 20:56   ` Juri Linkov
2007-09-25 21:01     ` Michaël Cadilhac
2007-09-25 21:49       ` Juri Linkov
2007-09-28  9:32         ` Michaël Cadilhac
2007-09-28 10:52           ` Robert J. Chassell
2007-09-28 10:59             ` Michaël Cadilhac
2007-09-29 16:10             ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-28 15:50           ` Drew Adams
2007-09-28 22:25           ` Robert J. Chassell
2007-09-29 22:48           ` Juri Linkov
2007-09-30  2:18             ` Drew Adams

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