From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thorsten Jolitz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Suppress user-prompting when calling commands in programs Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2014 18:27:43 +0200 Message-ID: <87bntvtq0w.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87r42skjd8.fsf@gmail.com> <877g4k7ux4.fsf@geodiff-mac3.ulb.ac.be> <87mwdfvrqd.fsf@gmail.com> <76d6b7a6-a761-4b06-ad96-a6d082a0a5ef@default> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1402763307 5870 80.91.229.3 (14 Jun 2014 16:28:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2014 16:28:27 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 14 18:28:21 2014 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 1WvqoW-0001MP-Eg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Jun 2014 18:28:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36018 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WvqoV-0001Ub-V1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Jun 2014 12:28:19 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50503) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WvqoG-0001Sm-JS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Jun 2014 12:28:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WvqoA-00036V-W7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Jun 2014 12:28:04 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:35068) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WvqoA-00036R-P6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Jun 2014 12:27:58 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Wvqo8-0000y2-T1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Jun 2014 18:27:56 +0200 Original-Received: from g231109013.adsl.alicedsl.de ([92.231.109.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 14 Jun 2014 18:27:56 +0200 Original-Received: from tjolitz by g231109013.adsl.alicedsl.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 14 Jun 2014 18:27:56 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: g231109013.adsl.alicedsl.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:vSi72zMXZmJA7mz9BLzDumO9Ieo= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:98259 Archived-At: Drew Adams writes: >> (equal current-prefix-arg '(32)) > > Perhaps you mean (equal current-prefix-arg '(64))? > > N `C-u' occurrences (for N>0) result in (expt 4 N) as the list car. definitely, thanks > [Why this is not documented in the Elisp manual, I don't know. > Certainly (IMHO), user code should be able to depend on it.] this (expt 4 N) is well-know, by me too, just forgot about it apparently ... -- cheers, Thorsten