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From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to count number of C-u prefixes?
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2022 15:30:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bkzmiu0l.fsf@zoho.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: courier.0000000061FD3414.00001867@stw1.rcdrun.com

Jean Louis wrote:

> I would like this function to give me number of times I have
> pressed C-u, and here is the attempt to solve it:
>
> (defun how-many-times (&optional prefix query)
>   (interactive "p")
>   (let* ((times (if (> prefix 1) (1+ (/ (sqrt prefix) 4)) 1)))
>     (message "Times %s" times)))

(defun how-many-times (&optional times)
  (interactive "p")
  (message "Super-Jean: %d" (log times 4)) )

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  reply	other threads:[~2022-02-04 14:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-02-04 14:11 How to count number of C-u prefixes? Jean Louis
2022-02-04 14:30 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [this message]
2022-02-04 14:56   ` Jean Louis
2022-02-04 15:07     ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-02-04 15:25       ` Jean Louis
2022-02-04 15:43         ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-02-04 15:49           ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-02-04 15:09     ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor

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