From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: interactive spec with reasonable numbers for c-u Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2022 05:36:24 +0200 Message-ID: <87leqtte13.fsf@dataswamp.org> References: <83y1uufmhl.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="25858"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:BIw8ZXvyAAiiXkys2qjLHsdpzUg= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 16 15:28:08 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oZBO4-0006Wd-I7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 16 Sep 2022 15:28:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34512 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oZBO3-0005Ds-GR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 16 Sep 2022 09:28:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:59862) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oWUor-0004Bw-1E for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Sep 2022 23:36:42 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:38804) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oWUok-0005XZ-6B for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Sep 2022 23:36:39 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oWUoi-0000yX-1F for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Sep 2022 05:36:32 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 16 Sep 2022 09:17:04 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:139526 Archived-At: 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