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 self-insert-char Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:57:50 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <32c2d34a-4333-4eb5-a49b-25763153ab16@a12g2000pro.googlegroups.com> <1430F100-3F7D-4BE8-9876-57444A303706@Web.DE> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1230957653 11341 80.91.229.12 (3 Jan 2009 04:40:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2009 04:40:53 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 03 05:42:04 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LIyKp-0002DO-32 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Jan 2009 05:42:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53501 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LIyJZ-0001Up-Jm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Jan 2009 23:40:45 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!feeder.erje.net!news.motzarella.org!motzarella.org!news.motzarella.org!barmar Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Trace: news.eternal-september.org U2FsdGVkX18oSKN3UcdXgJecBuWJL6Gg57TPJMgWHSexC1XdWSCbXjN+MjT8lb0ovPCrOeWcxnKWvOAHvb6X+QCd9L1GNp6Z5JGrooyQvpZ7e8Is5Ib8MeGdtLF/pax18NCAzPGv2cY= Original-X-Complaints-To: Please send complaints to abuse@motzarella.org with full headers Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2009 03:57:50 +0000 (UTC) X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX18SCHqwHDulQg+Tlo/5XwuQwXVaazH/4LE= Cancel-Lock: sha1:NNZWPUIeeMBgVSnbUFORsI9YsH0= User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Mail-Copies-To: nobody Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:165697 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:61031 Archived-At: In article , "John Watson" wrote: > Many thanks - indeed I thought it was C-u > 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 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 *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me *** *** PLEASE don't copy me on replies, I'll read them in the group ***