From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: C-u 1 inserts four "1" characters? Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2010 03:45:04 +0200 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <871v8zenvj.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> References: <8762ybet85.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <87lj77wzdh.fsf@castleamber.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291871988 18856 80.91.229.12 (9 Dec 2010 05:19:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 05:19:48 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 09 06:19:44 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQYus-0003qu-EY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 06:19:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44382 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQYur-0004DM-Jo for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 00:19:41 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 47 Original-X-Trace: individual.net gAXkP0DBaGQ+ELvUswMbFwbBWF9F2dNh504LYPcghuzCTEC7ex Cancel-Lock: sha1:MWVlMWJkZDJlMmVkZjAzNTE4ZmNkYzY3ODQyZjhiYjliNjM3OGVkZg== sha1:yCx360KavC9hQ/ArqaVdmQuYV0M= Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en X-Disabled: X-No-Archive: no User-Agent: Gnus/5.101 (Gnus v5.10.10) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:181238 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:76728 Archived-At: John Bokma writes: > pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) writes: > >> Sean McAfee writes: >> >>> I almost always specify command prefix arguments by holding down the >>> meta key while I type the argument digits. But just now I tried >>> specifying the prefix by typing C-u followed by the digits, and as soon >>> as I typed the first digit, four copies of the digit were inserted into >>> my current buffer! >>> >>> Further experimentation showed that it didn't matter how many times I >>> type C-u prior to typing the first digit; four copies are always >>> inserted (not 16, 64, etc). Also, if I type a hyphen following the C-u, >>> I get four hyphens in my buffer. >>> >>> Anyone have any idea why this could be happening? >> >> This is specified and documented that way. C-u x is four xs. >> >> If you want a different number, then type it: C-u 10 x is ten xs. > > From what I understand Sean's complaint is that > > C-u 3 gives 3333 > C-u - gives ---- > > So, if he tries > > C-u 10 x > > he gets > > 11110x > > not > > xxxxxxxxxx Indeed, he wrote that. Sorry, I just demonstrated poor reading skills... must be tired. -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/