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: Sat, 24 Jun 2017 20:39:01 +0200 Message-ID: <87wp81kz7e.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <87injle87j.fsf@vicarie> <87zicxtkx5.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 1498329588 6220 195.159.176.226 (24 Jun 2017 18:39:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2017 18:39:48 +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 Sat Jun 24 20:39:43 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 1dOpy9-0001Ck-Jv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Jun 2017 20:39:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40159 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dOpyE-0007Bj-Kg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Jun 2017 14:39:46 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52219) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dOpxm-0007Bd-7b for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Jun 2017 14:39:19 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dOpxj-0007VV-2M for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Jun 2017 14:39:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=46216 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dOpxi-0007V6-S2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Jun 2017 14:39:14 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dOpxY-0007oG-26 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Jun 2017 20:39:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:zJxl6Ug8pEmtUmlCeneaghqCJYU= 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:113557 Archived-At: john@ankarstrom.se (John Ankarström) writes: > In retrospect, it might have been better if C-u was > internally represented in some other way, but that's > the way it is and it's too late to change it ... :-) What's wrong with 4? You typically want to do it *once* and then you want it to have an impact. 2 is too small to have an impact and 3 you can tap ba-ba-bam on the key fast enough. But I do agree it shouldn't be changed :) -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573