From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Cecil Westerhof Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: C-u - does not work Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2016 21:41:23 +0200 Organization: Decebal Computing Message-ID: <87bn3ba2os.fsf@Equus.decebal.nl> References: <87r3cit0f3.fsf@Equus.decebal.nl> <87zir5j3br.fsf@127.0.0.1> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1465415137 9884 80.91.229.3 (8 Jun 2016 19:45:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2016 19:45:37 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 08 21:45:32 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1bAjPv-0003lT-FM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Jun 2016 21:45:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59189 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bAjPr-0002da-Dw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Jun 2016 15:45:27 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!2.us.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="12baf5125b19322b899c79c2e3878015"; logging-data="27899"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18W6XtXNXhYtFXdeDQOiqaLheKK33ZRWAM=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ApVNj33YJcRrwM4ygiHKV5xvLP8= sha1:WA2X3eJZQrp6zZfIuNqCYt4SQcc= X-Homepage: http://www.decebal.nl/ Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:218069 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:110378 Archived-At: On Wednesday 1 Jun 2016 00:00 CEST, hasm@example.invalid wrote: > >> When I want four - I would expect the following to work: >> C-u - >> but it does not. > > You can enter a number after C-u, defaulting to 4, number can be > positive or negative. When you type -, emacs things you are > composing a negative number. I should have thought about that. :-( But the situation I started with (but dumped down) was that I did: C-u C-u - With ‘C-u C-u’ I already signified that I want 16, so why does that not work and do I have to give: C-u 16- Not really a problem, but just wondering. -- Cecil Westerhof Senior Software Engineer LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof