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From: Cameron Desautels <cam@apt2324.com>
Subject: Re: How can I move my cursor 80 characters with a key binding?
Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2005 00:25:18 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051225062518.GD9520@setzer.hsd1.tx.comcast.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2089451.post@talk.nabble.com>

On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 10:08:54PM -0800, Scott Teresi (sent by Nabble.com) wrote:
> I'm trying to figure out how to bind a key combination to a function
> which would move the cursor forward about 80 characters (or back 80
> characters). I sometimes type very long lines in emacs and would
> like to be able to navigate through the line quicker than one space
> at a time or one word at a time. Thanks for any advice anyone can
> provide!

Is ``C-u 8 0 C-f'' too long for you?  You do it with a function if you
really wanted to..
-- 
Cameron Desautels <cam@apt2324.com>


One kill-ring to push them all, and to C-w bind them.
 -- Joe Brenner <doom@kzsu.stanford.edu>, in alt.religion.emacs

  reply	other threads:[~2005-12-25  6:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-25  6:08 How can I move my cursor 80 characters with a key binding? Scott Teresi (sent by Nabble.com)
2005-12-25  6:25 ` Cameron Desautels [this message]
2005-12-25  6:31   ` Cameron Desautels
2005-12-25 16:53   ` Scott Teresi (sent by Nabble.com)
2005-12-25 17:59     ` Peter Dyballa
2005-12-25 22:26     ` Stawrul
     [not found]   ` <mailman.20404.1135529707.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-12-25 20:05     ` Floyd L. Davidson
2005-12-26 12:32   ` Slawomir Nowaczyk
     [not found] <mailman.20378.1135491010.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-12-25 14:59 ` David Hansen
2005-12-25 18:50 ` B. T. Raven
2005-12-25 19:19   ` Scott Teresi (sent by Nabble.com)

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