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From: Joost Kremers <joost.m.kremers@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: C-u - does not work
Date: 2 Jun 2016 06:11:01 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <dra0vlF3cv3U1@mid.individual.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: nio6f00d0v@news7.newsguy.com

B. T. Raven wrote:
> C-u - needs a number after the hyphen.

Not necessarily. Just C-u - as a prefix argument yields the value -1
(for the numeric prefix argument) or the symbol '- (for the raw prefix
argument).



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Joost Kremers                                   joostkremers@fastmail.fm
Selbst in die Unterwelt dringt durch Spalten Licht
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  reply	other threads:[~2016-06-02  6:11 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 [this message]
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

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