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From: Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: C-u <number> self-insert-char
Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:57:50 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <barmar-696DE2.22575002012009@mara100-84.onlink.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.3794.1230949348.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

In article <mailman.3794.1230949348.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
 "John Watson" <jrwats@gmail.com> wrote:

> Many thanks - indeed I thought it was C-u <number>
> thanks for setting me straight!

It is.  But you can also give a prefix argument to C-u, and then it 
doesn't use the following number as the argument.

> 
> On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > > Shouldn't it be C-1-6 C-u 7?
> >
> > Keeping Ctrl down and pressing 1-6-u works too.
> >
> >    Juanma
> >

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-01-03  3:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-02 23:23 C-u <number> self-insert-char jrwats
2009-01-02 23:53 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-01-03  0:19   ` Peter Dyballa
2009-01-03  0:32     ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-01-03  2:22       ` John Watson
     [not found]       ` <mailman.3794.1230949348.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-01-03  3:57         ` Barry Margolin [this message]

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