From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: florian@fsavigny.de (Florian v. Savigny) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Rationale behind conversion of a nil prefix arg to numeric 1 Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2016 00:53:47 +0200 Message-ID: <87d1kjjmys.fsf@bertrandrussell.Speedport_W_723V_1_40_000> References: <87y437c0qg.fsf@bertrandrussell.Speedport_W_723V_1_40_000> <83oa43d9r8.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1473029684 29335 195.159.176.226 (4 Sep 2016 22:54:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2016 22:54:44 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 05 00:54:34 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bggJ3-0006Fs-LN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Sep 2016 00:54:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51376 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bggJ1-00072E-Hn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Sep 2016 18:54:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47141) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bggIc-00071u-U2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Sep 2016 18:54:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bggIY-0002Ap-Sv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Sep 2016 18:54:02 -0400 Original-Received: from srv4.ns-domain-hosting.de ([178.63.89.203]:53069) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bggIY-0002Af-ME for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Sep 2016 18:53:58 -0400 X-No-Relay: not in my network Original-Received: from bertrandrussell.Speedport_W_723V_1_40_000 (p3E9EEF0C.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [62.158.239.12]) by srv4.ns-domain-hosting.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6CEBB1863E0 for ; Mon, 5 Sep 2016 00:53:51 +0200 (CEST) In-reply-to: <83oa43d9r8.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Sun, 04 Sep 2016 17:23:23 +0300) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 178.63.89.203 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:111254 Archived-At: > Yes. Most commands use the argument as a repeat count, so having it > default to one makes perfect sense. Ahh! You mean, like, C-u 80 - conveniently draws a line across the screen. Yes, that makes it understandable indeed. Sounds like the prefix argument was more or less conceived as a repeat count. Thanks a lot, Eli! Florian --=20 Florian von Savigny Melanchthonstr. 41 33615 Bielefeld