From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: C-u - does not work Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2016 16:38:13 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <87r3cit0f3.fsf@Equus.decebal.nl> <87zir5j3br.fsf@127.0.0.1> <87bn3ba2os.fsf@Equus.decebal.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1465418432 30884 80.91.229.3 (8 Jun 2016 20:40:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2016 20:40:32 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 08 22:40:31 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 1bAkH9-0000DZ-8B for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Jun 2016 22:40:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59420 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bAkH5-0000u4-3o for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Jun 2016 16:40:27 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!168.235.88.217.MISMATCH!2.us.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!barmar.motzarella.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 40 Injection-Info: barmar.motzarella.org; posting-host="2be9e9f5dd9af768b8861af71b85fc28"; logging-data="5882"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18jk2e6fq8HB3QvF+yuSzNC" User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Cancel-Lock: sha1:DAIt0oZDdO6eohfdaU4XuntVOSs= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:218071 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:110380 Archived-At: In article <87bn3ba2os.fsf@Equus.decebal.nl>, Cecil Westerhof wrote: > On Wednesday 1 Jun 2016 00:00 CEST, hasm@example.invalid wrote: > > > > >> 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. > > I should have thought about that. :-( > > But the situation I started with (but dumped down) was that I did: > C-u C-u - > > With ‘C-u C-u’ I already signified that I want 16, so why does that > not work and do I have to give: > C-u 16- > > Not really a problem, but just wondering. >From the documentation: C-u without digits or minus sign provides 4 as argument. Repeating C-u without digits or minus sign multiplies the argument by 4 each time. So if you type a number after C-u, it doesn't matter that you repeated it, it switches to the explicit numeric argument. If you think this is wrong design, file a bug report. -- Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***