From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Proper behavior of C-u 3 C-v
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2020 17:33:42 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83lfieirsp.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h7t3xm2u.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Amin Bandali on Sun, 16 Aug 2020 00:15:53 -0400)
> From: Amin Bandali <bandali@gnu.org>
> Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2020 00:15:53 -0400
>
> > Scroll text of selected window upward ARG lines
>
> The doc string is indeed clear, but I personally wouldn't have expected
> that behaviour. I'm curious if there's a particular reason why C-v
> deviates from the convention of other similar movement commands, where
> specifying a numerical ARG `n' would have the effect of performing that
> command's action `n' times (e.g. M-3 M-f to move forward three words).
Because what we do is more useful, I guess. I find this so useful
that I have a special command to scroll by 1 line bound to a key since
time immemoriam.
But anyway, this behavior is so old that the person to ask is probably
RMS himself.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-16 14:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-14 23:50 Proper behavior of C-u 3 C-v rgrant
2020-08-15 16:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-16 4:15 ` Amin Bandali
2020-08-16 10:30 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-08-16 14:33 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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