From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to count number of C-u prefixes? Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2022 15:30:34 +0100 Message-ID: <87bkzmiu0l.fsf@zoho.eu> References: Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="23787"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:PCxR/xKw2DEOsRzpWjm5PCbD8O8= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 04 15:31:54 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nFzcw-0005yb-5G for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 04 Feb 2022 15:31:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44310 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nFzcu-0008ET-Gx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 04 Feb 2022 09:31:52 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:42404) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nFzbn-00089u-OC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Feb 2022 09:30:43 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:44118) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nFzbm-0001YY-8i for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Feb 2022 09:30:43 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nFzbk-0004Yp-4u for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Feb 2022 15:30:40 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:135737 Archived-At: 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)) ) -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal