From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: CTL-u for complicated commands Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 14:45:16 -0600 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3F3D465C.4040305@yahoo.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1060980446 20161 80.91.224.253 (15 Aug 2003 20:47:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 20:47:26 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 15 22:47:25 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19nlTp-0005aV-00 for ; Fri, 15 Aug 2003 22:47:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19nlSw-00049U-Fi for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Aug 2003 16:46:30 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!feed.news.nacamar.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 21 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1060980305 268869 170.207.51.80 (16 [82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:115927 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 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 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:11843 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:11843 Robert Marshall wrote: >>Make a keyboard macro and then repeat that. Your macro would be `C-x >>( Alt-q 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