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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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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