From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: HASM Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: C-u - does not work Date: Tue, 31 May 2016 15:00:08 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: <87zir5j3br.fsf@127.0.0.1> References: <87r3cit0f3.fsf@Equus.decebal.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1464884375 593 80.91.229.3 (2 Jun 2016 16:19:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2016 16:19:35 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 02 18:19:20 2016 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 1b8VL6-0006g4-Gy for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Jun 2016 18:19:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48459 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b8VL5-0004Tg-Qk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Jun 2016 12:19:19 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 12 Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="67abaace52096eb9ef4967a6e2e11c0b"; logging-data="29383"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/WmDV9iy9opdIdTJwF8P9dzzeU/0Gb3/o=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:BVSyxM0/HMFceKS/NllCbrYQNZc= sha1:/hYuZEqCs6ayIXIteuifbVi5QIM= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:217927 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:110253 Archived-At: > When I want four - I would expect the following to work: > C-u - > but it does not. You can enter a number after C-u, defaulting to 4, number can be positive or negative. When you type -, emacs things you are composing a negative number. Try "C-x k C-u" for all details. -- HASM