From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Calling function as if it had a C-u prefix Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 22:51:04 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <874mq7m3av.fsf@debian.uxu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1425073824 19419 80.91.229.3 (27 Feb 2015 21:50:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 21:50:24 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 27 22:50:19 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YRSnZ-0001R1-9K for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Feb 2015 22:50:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39146 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YRSnY-0003K9-Os for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Feb 2015 16:50:16 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 31 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: feB02bRejf23rfBm51Mt7Q.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:lw3xPiBfLps8KnjGdrQ2g1W2AQs= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:210655 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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 Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:102930 Archived-At: torys.anderson@gmail.com (Tory S. Anderson) writes: > I'm playing around with hydra and am trying to bind > a key to do the equivalent of `C-u org-clock-in`. > I've tried following a related question on SO[1] but > it doesn't seem to be working. Can anyone tell me > where I'm off? I don't have hydra (?) or `org-clock-in' but usually those functions have an optional argument. For example, the docstring of `forward-char': (forward-char &optional N) In such a case, simply put an invocation with an explicit argument in a wrapper (an interactive defun) and bind that to the desired command (shortcut). If you cannot use the optional argument try this: (defun forward-fourteen () (interactive) (let ((current-prefix-arg 14)) (call-interactively 'forward-char) )) (forward-fourteen) ; evaluate me and see how far (global-set-key "\C-x\M-o" 'forward-fourteen) -- underground experts united