From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: source liu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: problem repeat entry for a number Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 17:25:36 +0800 Message-ID: References: <87pqcp0yec.fsf@mithlond.arda> <874ntzh5zu.fsf@gnuvola.org> <87vcmffp6t.fsf@gnuvola.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1331198761 24983 80.91.229.3 (8 Mar 2012 09:26:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 09:26:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Thien-Thi Nguyen Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 08 10:26:00 2012 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 1S5Zbj-0001Bi-Ip for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Mar 2012 10:25:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37958 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S5Zbe-0006Hp-2d for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Mar 2012 04:25:54 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:48286) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S5ZbV-0006HP-3S for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Mar 2012 04:25:51 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S5ZbO-0005h5-L2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Mar 2012 04:25:44 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-pz0-f41.google.com ([209.85.210.41]:65456) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S5ZbO-0005gu-CD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Mar 2012 04:25:38 -0500 Original-Received: by dadv6 with SMTP id v6so289233dad.0 for ; Thu, 08 Mar 2012 01:25:36 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=zDZNc6ZjDPIXZnhIDriUnOvxdVPhX4pVpmZsoDoA+wM=; b=JBigoH+4Uxw+Nq2wfqA54Y5SBNET7VHgzHHjuAi4l2VztLasPdDes6UcHMr0d5RH1U xNoLnOGj5xqA1Y0RfLGefvM8PlbnujM2dKj9uRwb9Nel6Mdp9zN9Zp6ZnX2vUExCfgOi q5eZaWP1H4J0L1WP2rNoGu4h5ls8DyXeljQl9mlO8PIoGb0LqlaYvHu0/BAoA35vRLxy vYoLkkFAbZofPkFHP9qbMoZszXP6Kw/zFUBVx40VSmc1ygByisLtvyqDR2vCTljQhSvu Uhv0Jq/FCtGG60trrULCQzBWBBF+zH0jupNPtkQ073gFvwDZIXzacm9pqebU9OOZcNho xDaQ== Original-Received: by 10.68.233.99 with SMTP id tv3mr8304823pbc.73.1331198736127; Thu, 08 Mar 2012 01:25:36 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.143.58.4 with HTTP; Thu, 8 Mar 2012 01:25:36 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87vcmffp6t.fsf@gnuvola.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 209.85.210.41 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:83980 Archived-At: On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote: > () source liu > () Thu, 8 Mar 2012 16:17:39 +0800 > > =A0 > I see it as an opportunity to improve the manual. > =A0 > What terms did you use to search for this info? > > =A0 here term you mean something like rxvt xterm? > =A0 I'm sorry I'm not quite understand. > > Sorry, i'll rephrase ... > > =A0 as for manuals, i have a problem in looking it up for a quite a > =A0 long time. > > =A0 A lot of information I know it should be in C - h, but when i > =A0 come across to a issue, i just can't find which is related to > =A0 the specific issue. =A0:( > > ... here: > > The Emacs hackers would like to improve the manual so that the > answer to questions such as "how to insert 999999999 using a > prefix argument" can be more easily found, perhaps by adding terms > to the manual's index, or by adding/clarifying specific pieces of > text. =A0To figure out what to do, it's best to know what happened, > previously. =A0That's why i asked that question, with "term" being > another way to say "index topic". =A0I presumed (maybe mistakenly?) > that you used the index. > > So, more generally: "What was your strategy to search for the > answer to this question?" got it, thanks for your patience. first i tried C - h k C-u, and get help message. of course it gave out some information, but i'm a little dazzled by the description. *** part of C -h k C-u ***** Repeating C-u without digits or minus sign multiplies the argument by 4 each time. For some commands, just C-u by itself serves as a flag *** end of C -h k C-u ***** I may treat the flag "C-u" as a *terminating flag* now since i know C-u can be used this way. but at that time i thought nothing of it ( even not think of type C -u again) and of course, i've no idea about C -q for quote input numbers until i got answer from the mailist. i also tried to use C-h k M - and C-h k C-, but failed to get answer. then, i tried to find answers through internet, and find little related informati= on. finally, I join the list and made a post, and got the satisfied answers if there is better way (or how should i do the search), plz tell me, it would help a lot. Regards. --=20 Liu An Institution of modern physics, Shanghai, China