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From: Rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Transposing words over middle words
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2017 08:57:18 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6ec7af50-26c3-4a03-8fcd-d389a492db02@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.3897.1510936953.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>

On Friday, November 17, 2017 at 10:12:36 PM UTC+5:30, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Stefan Monnier
> > Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2017 11:03:37 -0500
> > 
> > > C-u 0 M-t works fine.
> > 
> > BTW, I'd argue that C-u M-t should work as well: currently it is treated
> > like C-u 4 M-t, but I think it's a poor choice.
> 
> Really?  That a lone C-u means an arg of 4 is burnt into our muscle
> memory for decades.  Compare with "C-u C-n".  A command that receives
> a numerical argument normally treats all of its arguments as numbers.
> Breaking that in a single command sounds like a misfeature.

Org mode (at least) is full of functions for which C-u means change some behavior (C-u C-u changes more) and has nothing to do with some magic number 4


  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-11-17 16:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.3764.1510787840.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2017-11-16  7:04 ` Transposing words over middle words Loris Bennett
2017-11-16  8:41   ` Joost Kremers
2017-11-16  8:47     ` Joost Kremers
2017-11-16 16:06   ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-16 22:26     ` Bob Proulx
2017-11-17  5:00       ` Yuri Khan
2017-11-17  5:08         ` Emanuel Berg
2017-11-17  8:55       ` Gian Uberto Lauri
2017-11-17  8:58         ` Gian Uberto Lauri
2017-11-17  9:10           ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-17  9:35             ` Gian Uberto Lauri
2017-11-17 16:03           ` Stefan Monnier
2017-11-17 16:19             ` Robert Pluim
2017-11-17 20:41               ` Marcin Borkowski
2017-11-17 16:42             ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-17 22:53               ` Stefan Monnier
2017-11-17 23:02                 ` Emanuel Berg
     [not found]             ` <mailman.3897.1510936953.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2017-11-17 16:57               ` Rusi [this message]
2017-11-17 17:26                 ` Drew Adams
2017-11-17 18:05                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-17 22:55             ` Stefan Monnier
2017-11-17 23:09               ` Emanuel Berg
2017-11-21 17:21               ` Tomas Nordin
2017-11-22 18:18                 ` Arnaldo Mandel
2017-11-22 19:15                   ` Emanuel Berg
2017-11-22 21:33                 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-11-17 20:38         ` Marcin Borkowski
2017-11-18 17:11       ` Robert Thorpe
2017-11-16 21:55 ` Michael Piotrowski
2017-11-16 23:05 ` Joseph C. Fineman
2017-11-17  0:39   ` Emanuel Berg
2017-11-17  7:19   ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-18 20:29     ` clhs on other languages f.nikolakopoulos
2017-11-21  0:43       ` Robert Thorpe
     [not found]   ` <mailman.3847.1510879170.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2017-11-17 23:34     ` Transposing words over middle words Joseph C. Fineman
2017-11-18  0:05       ` Emanuel Berg
     [not found]       ` <mailman.3932.1510963563.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2017-11-18 22:55         ` Joseph C. Fineman
2017-11-18 23:57           ` Emanuel Berg
     [not found]   ` <mailman.3856.1510903218.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2017-11-17 23:35     ` Joseph C. Fineman
2017-11-15 23:17 Bob Proulx
2017-11-15 23:35 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-11-16  6:03   ` Emanuel Berg
2017-11-16  0:04 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-11-18 17:07   ` ken
2017-11-18 19:34     ` Emanuel Berg
2017-11-19  2:06       ` ken
2017-11-19  2:15         ` Emanuel Berg
2017-11-19  2:34           ` John Mastro
2017-11-19  3:39             ` Emanuel Berg
2017-11-19  4:37               ` Drew Adams
2017-11-19  4:58                 ` Drew Adams
2017-11-19 14:56                 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-11-16 19:34 ` Charles A. Roelli
2017-11-16 19:41   ` Emanuel Berg
2017-11-16 20:09   ` Marcin Borkowski
2017-11-16 21:15     ` Emanuel Berg
2017-11-16 22:55       ` Bob Proulx
2017-11-16 23:02         ` Emanuel Berg
2017-11-16 21:18     ` Emanuel Berg
2017-11-16 22:43       ` Drew Adams
2017-11-16 22:59         ` Emanuel Berg
2017-11-17 16:21           ` Drew Adams
2017-11-17 20:52             ` Emanuel Berg
2017-11-16 22:28   ` Bob Proulx
     [not found] ` <mailman.3765.1510789425.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2017-11-16 22:02   ` Michael Piotrowski
2017-11-16 23:00     ` Bob Proulx
2017-11-16 23:29     ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-11-16 23:30       ` Eric Abrahamsen

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