From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Udyant Wig Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Changing the factor used in universal arugment Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2017 23:12:34 +0530 Message-ID: <02fcac74-058e-90c7-4868-3472e604b558@gmail.com> References: <87injle87j.fsf@vicarie> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1498334237 25796 195.159.176.226 (24 Jun 2017 19:57:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2017 19:57:17 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0 To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 24 21:57:13 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dOrBA-0006X2-KW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Jun 2017 21:57:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40309 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dOrBF-00063q-Vd for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Jun 2017 15:57:17 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41191) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dOp52-0002TE-0O for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Jun 2017 13:42:44 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dOp4y-00051F-Ud for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Jun 2017 13:42:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-pf0-x243.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400e:c00::243]:36290) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dOp4y-0004xc-Pl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Jun 2017 13:42:40 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-pf0-x243.google.com with SMTP id z6so3341306pfk.3 for ; Sat, 24 Jun 2017 10:42:39 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=subject:to:references:from:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version :in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=YVkpr98+q4LRuuPAoYigHyJQkMcDnNRmGMZnOIB2NUM=; b=kh+xERVJmgmmC3rVp05QD+ofkfwFdCZ9fIswY9PFlVqRbbIa4bq3c5m6yawNuuyi4q YCaogc2W6LJ4R8+Qat1C0SiukRM8qg5XO1ttLy4qYDXy2JtxuzrsRr8rOMizn5Yk09hw /YOGDK21dkPXUvv7LtuGnAdOPlSj6GCgpDofxCbuh7GqG+yaspTeBHlwGfMsyLa02WAL b1SToSNRDtUZy08wOh5hUfR4k6MohMrYCLc36YtgNRsPbh3InuIuMBwt8Kr+V9WSD0FO EXfhnhbulGnk4qAcvHZ0NR1aapJ6YNliROllGiDUPVCPB7A1hRG/O2HuhchlpUMTjhjD VgbA== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=YVkpr98+q4LRuuPAoYigHyJQkMcDnNRmGMZnOIB2NUM=; b=ed7e01qfbwGPALGEpky4KQo6KRNKvj4tbp96a+j+11n/1bDpd/9lhgUcGb+/19vKR4 U+jLdbaHQGiocnOch/3WRiorgbpuODGwO1CVJfeEdHd3rkNEQ7ll1tlcV5B1DpEdCKZy I8Ob+Io7jrxkRRJSCvXa2YkIbxP06ZKmRQFA2vbSX6tk0qN4IzG8KYRBq7mj5Wc11HMT PKhJTeG1p0572nG+KjE5WOD6kcj5/ZifhtLSpjaSXvVoriCuvjrF4gCjJnyZ8mo8s553 GaUUk7Ihw+96C3ewfzjsgWlQNqFsw0/bVRzS2T83z29kBFgSGYPK4FCvaQZmPWVwNfaC PJuQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AKS2vOw0nDFQh7I0R6kVZjM9wgoxb8kcMtmyIRCEgYaiiHJoxN9njq2s PUXsUjptVDhnDitwTYo= X-Received: by 10.99.105.4 with SMTP id e4mr14129332pgc.186.1498326158075; Sat, 24 Jun 2017 10:42:38 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.235] ([182.70.153.10]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id g79sm17288511pfg.121.2017.06.24.10.42.36 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sat, 24 Jun 2017 10:42:37 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87injle87j.fsf@vicarie> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:400e:c00::243 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 24 Jun 2017 15:56:36 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:113559 Archived-At: On 06/24/2017 08:36 PM, Narendra Joshi wrote: > Hi, > > How can I change the factor by which universal argument changes on > repetition from 4 to say 2? For say having more granularity there. > > Best, What precisely do you have in mind? What do you want to achieve? If the default value of C-u, which is 4, is too blunt an instrument for your purpose, have you tried the arbitrary numeric prefixes, say, C-3 or M-5, just to specify two? -- ... while the ways of art are hard at the best, they will break you if you go unsustained by belief in what you are trying to do. -- Arthur Quiller-Couch