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From: Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: CTL-u for complicated commands
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 14:45:16 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F3D465C.4040305@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: uekznytom.fsf@mail.chezmarshall.freeserve.co.uk

Robert Marshall wrote:

>>Make a keyboard macro and then repeat that. Your macro would be `C-x
>>( Alt-q <arrow-down> C-x )'. Then you try it a couple of times with
>>`C-x e', and when it seems right, you do `C-u verybignum C-x e'.
> 
> Or - better - C-u 0 C-x e


I've always found it annoying that specifying 0 as the arg to
call-last-kbd-macro does not run it 0 times.  I prefer to specify
a negative argument (C-u -) to run it til an error is signalled.


> assuming that arrow-down doesn't extend the bufffer (see
> next-line-add-newlines)


-- 
Kevin Rodgers

  reply	other threads:[~2003-08-15 20:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-15 11:19 CTL-u for complicated commands schaecsn
2003-08-15 12:38 ` Jussi Piitulainen
2003-08-15 12:46   ` Robert Marshall
2003-08-15 20:45     ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
2003-08-15 12:57 ` Johan Bockgård

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