From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Slawomir Nowaczyk Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How can I move my cursor 80 characters with a key binding? Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2005 13:32:47 +0100 Message-ID: <20051226131225.4DF6.SLAWOMIR.NOWACZYK.847@student.lu.se> References: <2089451.post@talk.nabble.com> <20051225062518.GD9520@setzer.hsd1.tx.comcast.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1135602128 25639 80.91.229.2 (26 Dec 2005 13:02:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2005 13:02:08 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 26 14:02:06 2005 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 1EqrzF-0003DD-SX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Dec 2005 14:02:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EqrzF-0002Tl-Vc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Dec 2005 08:02:02 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EqrYN-0001SK-2a for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Dec 2005 07:34:15 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EqrYK-0001Qc-U5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Dec 2005 07:34:13 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EqrYJ-0001PA-4m for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Dec 2005 07:34:11 -0500 Original-Received: from [130.235.16.11] (helo=himmelsborg.cs.lth.se) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EqrY7-0003a9-LV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Dec 2005 07:34:00 -0500 Original-Received: from [127.0.0.1] (slawek@dain [130.235.16.76]) by himmelsborg.cs.lth.se (8.12.11/8.12.11/perf-jw-tr) with ESMTP id jBQCWkEg025658 for ; Mon, 26 Dec 2005 13:32:46 +0100 (CET) Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <20051225062518.GD9520@setzer.hsd1.tx.comcast.net> X-Esmandil_Citation: done X-Mailer-Plugin: Popup Memopad for Becky!2 Ver.0.02 Rev.2 X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.21.04 [en] 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:32231 Archived-At: On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 00:25:18 -0600 Cameron Desautels wrote: #> On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 10:08:54PM -0800, Scott Teresi (sent by Nabble.com) wrote: #> > I'm trying to figure out how to bind a key combination to a function #> > which would move the cursor forward about 80 characters (or back 80 #> > characters). I sometimes type very long lines in emacs and would #> > like to be able to navigate through the line quicker than one space #> > at a time or one word at a time. Thanks for any advice anyone can #> > provide! #> #> Is ``C-u 8 0 C-f'' too long for you? You do it with a function if you #> really wanted to.. ``C-8 0 C-f'' is even faster for me -- I know it runs forward-char 80 times instead of just once, but for reasonable values of 80 I prefer computer to work harder if it saves me the extra keystroke :) -- Best wishes, Slawomir Nowaczyk ( slawomir.nowaczyk.847@student.lu.se ) Most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.