From: Joost Kremers <joost.m.kremers@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: C-u - does not work
Date: 1 Jun 2016 12:17:36 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dr8230FlumiU1@mid.individual.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87r3cit0f3.fsf@Equus.decebal.nl
Cecil Westerhof wrote:
> When I want four - I would expect the following to work:
> C-u -
> but it does not.
C-u - is the negative prefix argument. (See the Elisp manual on prefix
arguments.) So the - after C-u is not interpreted as a character that
should invoke self-insert-command.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-01 12:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-31 20:52 C-u - does not work Cecil Westerhof
2016-05-31 22:00 ` HASM
2016-06-02 2:43 ` B. T. Raven
2016-06-02 6:11 ` Joost Kremers
2016-06-02 14:57 ` HASM
2016-06-08 19:41 ` Cecil Westerhof
2016-06-08 20:38 ` Barry Margolin
2016-06-01 12:17 ` Joost Kremers [this message]
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