From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "B. T. Raven" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: C-u - does not work Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2016 21:43:36 -0500 Organization: NewsGuy - Unlimited Usenet $23.95 Message-ID: References: <87r3cit0f3.fsf@Equus.decebal.nl> <87zir5j3br.fsf@127.0.0.1> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1464883020 9396 80.91.229.3 (2 Jun 2016 15:57:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2016 15:57:00 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 02 17:57:00 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1b8UzU-0005qA-1I for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Jun 2016 17:57:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48177 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b8UzT-0001D8-D6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Jun 2016 11:56:59 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!peer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!spln!extra.newsguy.com!newsp.newsguy.com!news7 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 22 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: pfcfee81738e98f343386b7b40dbb479f9b281086ba8fb067.newsdawg.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.7.2 In-Reply-To: <87zir5j3br.fsf@127.0.0.1> X-Received-Bytes: 1425 X-Received-Body-CRC: 3276036612 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:217947 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:110226 Archived-At: On 5/31/2016 17:00, HASM wrote: > >> When I want four - I would expect the following to work: >> C-u - >> but it does not. > > You can enter a number after C-u, defaulting to 4, number can be > positive or negative. When you type -, emacs things you are composing a > negative number. > > Try "C-x k C-u" for all details. > > -- HASM > Unless you have a custom keybinding that should be C-h k C-u C-u by itself without the - uses 4 as the default in most cases. C-u - needs a number after the hyphen. I kept trying C-x k (kill-buffer) and thought I had introduced a keybinding mod somewhere. A synonym for C-h k is M-x describe-key Ed