From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Changing the factor used in universal arugment Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2017 16:37:25 +0200 Message-ID: <87o9tckuai.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <87injle87j.fsf@vicarie> <02fcac74-058e-90c7-4868-3472e604b558@gmail.com> <878tkhndn6.fsf@ankarstrom.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1498401496 31645 195.159.176.226 (25 Jun 2017 14:38:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2017 14:38:16 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 25 16:38:09 2017 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 1dP8fu-0007h4-8o for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 25 Jun 2017 16:38:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42808 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dP8fz-0000Tf-ID for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 25 Jun 2017 10:38:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58583) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dP8fa-0000TO-Al for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Jun 2017 10:37:47 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dP8fW-0003uj-3l for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Jun 2017 10:37:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=56562 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dP8fV-0003tm-U0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Jun 2017 10:37:42 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dP8fH-0005rg-VW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Jun 2017 16:37:27 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:ONJOZdOrMnRvoOtMtfp2vHOOOrc= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 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:113566 Archived-At: john@ankarstrom.se (John Ankarström) writes: >> What precisely do you have in mind? What do you >> want to achieve? If the default value of C-u, which >> is 4, is too blunt an instrument for your purpose, >> have you tried the arbitrary numeric prefixes, say, >> C-3 or M-5, just to specify two? > > This! C-2 is just as simple as C-u. The only > difference is you can't multiply it, like C-u C-u > C-u. `C-u 2' (or C-u whatever) is even more simple and it doesn't get more arbitrary than that. Well, possibly papal rule in the Vatican was even more arbitrary... -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573