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From: Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: interactive spec with reasonable numbers for c-u
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2022 05:36:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87leqtte13.fsf@dataswamp.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CAJcAo8sAdt15BrXUsm0QbUn4JX4BYQfSXONedZwAQ6rau-R8uA@mail.gmail.com

Samuel Wales wrote:

>> How about using (log N 4), where N is what you get from the
>> prefix, i.e. 4, 16, 64, etc.?
>
> that would work. but it being just about as easy to use the
> number directly, i was thinking there might be a new
> interactive spec, and another possibility might be something
> that allows symbols to be used in conditionals.

Do it, I've never heard of anyone writing his own interactive
spec so it's an original idea ...

As for getting 1, 2, 3 or anything else out of the 4, 16, 64
etc there is no other way than to convert them with Lisp as
suggested or in whatever other way one would prefer to get the
desired result.

> never mind whole thing. there are surely greater things to
> be done with emacs than to mind this silly post.

Stop it, you ruin your self esteem ...

-- 
underground experts united
https://dataswamp.org/~incal




  reply	other threads:[~2022-09-09  3:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-09-08  0:47 interactive spec with reasonable numbers for c-u Samuel Wales
2022-09-08  1:03 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-09-08  5:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-08  9:39   ` Emanuel Berg
     [not found]     ` <CAJcAo8vg6_Ej-0TtdKQdKDTJ32f=-UJExeyS0Wd-0SCSQyY2jw@mail.gmail.com>
2022-09-10  2:03       ` Emanuel Berg
2022-09-17  6:19         ` Samuel Wales
2022-09-09  0:49   ` Samuel Wales
2022-09-09  3:36     ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
     [not found]       ` <CAJcAo8v1ygssXWXHN2yu7OCk9UagSG48-DEPvU7bnZg691JjRg@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]         ` <CAJcAo8v9XaoT8c8f=9_a=8LOh3euerW5mnfjfNGjDfGjsvPvSg@mail.gmail.com>
2022-09-19  7:10           ` Emanuel Berg
     [not found]             ` <CAJcAo8v1zKzp1A8s=16V=k3G94naPMhiSEjDoA8hP+qFq5oXsQ@mail.gmail.com>
2022-09-19 22:43               ` Emanuel Berg

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