From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: liyer.vijay@gmail.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: eval with prefix argument Date: 14 May 2006 17:00:16 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1147651216.103325.135400@i39g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> References: <87wtcouupy.fsf@localhost.localdomain> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1147653633 28926 80.91.229.2 (15 May 2006 00:40:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 00:40:33 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 15 02:40:32 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FfR8S-0008QX-BA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 May 2006 02:40:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FfR8R-0007MY-L6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 May 2006 20:40:31 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!i39g2000cwa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.47.130.159 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1147651221 14003 127.0.0.1 (15 May 2006 00:00:21 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 00:00:21 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <87wtcouupy.fsf@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: G2/0.2 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060513 Ubuntu/dapper Firefox/1.5.0.3,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: i39g2000cwa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=216.47.130.159; posting-account=dPba2w0AAAAAulCJ1KybNHojA2NW0cbx Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:139411 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:35034 Archived-At: Gary Wessle wrote: > **************************************************************** > C-x C-e runs the command eval-last-sexp > which is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `emacs-lisp/lisp-mode'. > (eval-last-sexp EVAL-LAST-SEXP-ARG-INTERNAL) > > Evaluate sexp before point; print value in minibuffer. > Interactively, with prefix argument, print output into current buffer. > **************************************************************** > > I don't understand what prefix argument to give and where in the > sequence of the keys C-x C-e C-u C-x C-e Cheers Vijay > Can we quote you on that? A long time ago, someone in the Lisp industry told me it was poor form quote people; it suggests that they lack value. -- Kent M Pitman in comp.lang.lisp