From: Jeff Clough <jeff@chaosphere.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: SLIME and CTRL-D
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2010 08:07:24 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3r5moommb.fsf@logrus.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4bbe697b$0$9896$80265adb@spool.cs.wisc.edu
Peter Keller <psilord@merlin.cs.wisc.edu> writes:
> Helmut Eller <eller.helmut@gmail.com> wrote:
> ... I just know C-u to be a "do this N times"
> command, so relating it to stdin was surprising.
In Emacs, C-u specifies the prefix argument, which *may* be a repetition
count, but sometimes simply changes the behavior of the command.
I think the canonical example of this is fill-paragraph. If you give it
a prefix argument, it ignores the value but interprets the presence of
the argument to mean "justify the paragraph too".
Jeff
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-09 12:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-08 18:22 SLIME and CTRL-D Peter Keller
2010-04-08 19:19 ` Helmut Eller
2010-04-08 20:29 ` Peter Keller
2010-04-08 20:54 ` Helmut Eller
2010-04-08 23:40 ` Peter Keller
2010-04-09 12:07 ` Jeff Clough [this message]
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