From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Scott Teresi (sent by Nabble.com)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: How can I move my cursor 80 characters with a key binding? Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 22:08:54 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <2089451.post@talk.nabble.com> Reply-To: Scott Teresi NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============0014733556==" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1135490961 15106 80.91.229.2 (25 Dec 2005 06:09:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2005 06:09:21 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 25 07:09:18 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 1EqP4C-0008RR-Aw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 07:09:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EqP5K-0007eY-Me for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 01:10:22 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EqP56-0007eS-Ky for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 01:10:08 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EqP56-0007eG-0X for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 01:10:08 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EqP55-0007eD-PN for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 01:10:07 -0500 Original-Received: from [72.21.53.35] (helo=talk.nabble.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA:16) (Exim 4.34) id 1EqP4g-0005i4-OU for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 01:09:42 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=talk.nabble.com) by talk.nabble.com with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EqP3u-0003QP-P9 for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Dec 2005 22:08:54 -0800 Original-To: Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Nabble-Sender: Nabble Forums X-Nabble-From: Scott Teresi 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:32212 Archived-At: --===============0014733556== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_783_28805962.1135490934775" ------=_Part_783_28805962.1135490934775 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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! Scott -- Sent from the Emacs - Help forum at Nabble.com: http://www.nabble.com/How-can-I-move-my-cursor-80-characters-with-a-key-binding--t803190.html#a2089451 ------=_Part_783_28805962.1135490934775 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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!

Scott
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