Re: Customizing universal-argument (C-u), instead of hardcoding 4?

[Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>]

John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com> writes:
>I'll leave it to others to answer (a).
>
>As for (b), I am opposed to the change. There is too much expectation right
>now that it has the value 4, including code that does not live in the Emacs or
>GNU ELPA repositories.
>
>If your main reason is to make C-u movement customizable, how about rebinding
>C-u to "my-universal-argument"?

Thanks, John.  This wasn't something I feel strongly about, so if you're opposed, that's enough for me to withdraw the suggestion.  I can roll my own `universal-argument and `universal-argument-more' if I really want to; obviously it's easier (for me) the less code I maintain outside the upstream sources, but it's no big deal.  I hadn't thought about the point that lots of code outside Emacs and even ELPA is probably also counting on it being 4, but now that you mention that, it makes me kind of take your side rather than mine anyway :-).

Best regards,
-Karl