From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Amin Bandali Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Proper behavior of C-u 3 C-v Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2020 00:15:53 -0400 Organization: GNU Message-ID: <87h7t3xm2u.fsf@gnu.org> References: <8450b9205b4c686979c2e26962d377a7@posteo.net> <837dtzkh3k.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="28822"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 16 06:16:17 2020 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 1k7A5h-0007Q2-61 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 16 Aug 2020 06:16:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35372 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1k7A5g-0001Sb-7y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 16 Aug 2020 00:16:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:54092) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1k7A5M-0001Qp-4M for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Aug 2020 00:15:56 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:34698) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1k7A5L-0004E6-Rg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Aug 2020 00:15:55 -0400 Original-Received: from [2607:fea8:3fdf:f688::8] (port=41696 helo=localhost) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1k7A5L-00063U-D5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Aug 2020 00:15:55 -0400 Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <837dtzkh3k.fsf@gnu.org> X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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:123670 Archived-At: --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Eli Zaretskii writes: >> Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2020 01:50:48 +0200 >> From: rgrant@posteo.net >>=20 >> Is this supposed to scroll down by three lines, or is it supposed to=20 >> scroll down by three screen-fulls? > > The former. The doc string says it clearly: > > Scroll text of selected window upward ARG lines The doc string is indeed clear, but I personally wouldn't have expected that behaviour. I'm curious if there's a particular reason why C-v deviates from the convention of other similar movement commands, where specifying a numerical ARG `n' would have the effect of performing that command's action `n' times (e.g. M-3 M-f to move forward three words). --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQJEBAEBCAAuFiEEObM8jZRIDS3cwqSYi0Sgzce5VvIFAl84svkQHGJhbmRhbGlA Z251Lm9yZwAKCRCLRKDNx7lW8sNPD/9BnRDmqKwxim9ucMQT4i59QbZ5Qa8riBzA e4pP58ifk/b+/G3JLOKvW3fdLncSf8BwrQuQbkgWZvSFdHtg8NmTd+WvoNG8kBfE llUttynyjdFoOagrwmmO8A97KvNUtwt03JWhIVUCj36gOXXLJOS+QMr5Y7FDNoJv fZIeK6y+Is8V/kb0EEg+/PJpepRuGpoKqsLCqtuWEQKTwvYXQJX+CXbWVDbENUvu zAGMTXYjFK6eUlmRadjXiDzaJN2oCOy48CeeNaf4p7Q9vXukvng3CGYK7FJso8BH 6wBgkbfrNzSCYi2aH+9HhP4ojnMRFoP6v+5CrVxZRYDXg9tf2OkydLpKz1/BjcbT 3tnLdGq8gRNQnHTWho+39T7QaUlKpMPuOWABL3VeFIuJwqv7KKAyNe0CwMrWws9/ XD7GWicirTli6cguXaEKErhL7SzL1RACnb1/uyZpgcFBqIN5edifORozfXe8ezfH qiw8TxR+J0jkTEfk8iTB4TyFLmFjx6iHcK/wTHvvNfvEjtTln4EBswEcrsnt2rsj aFxFKitBsPYpg+NOb6VYP3XhA068SGlyI28EKW/Jszzm63rH6ZAqWOIxEJFCA91g T799s8HmdPfpWlI54A17hfhUupETUPMK/u8rArsUsSd9G9wSB9aZQW9guWQaE2Vq 99ZlpCFfFw== =bKKQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--