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
> >
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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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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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