From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gary Wessle Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: eval with prefix argument Date: 15 May 2006 08:06:49 +1000 Organization: iPrimus Customer - reports relating to abuse should be sent to abuse@iprimus.com.au Message-ID: <87wtcouupy.fsf@localhost.localdomain> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1147646444 14388 80.91.229.2 (14 May 2006 22:40:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 22:40:44 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 15 00:40:42 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FfPGN-0000C1-Uv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 May 2006 00:40:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FfPGN-0002be-Gu for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 May 2006 18:40:35 -0400 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 58.178.39.200 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 127.0.0.1 Original-Lines: 18 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.134.67.67 Original-X-Trace: 1147644402 un-2park-reader-01.sydney.pipenetworks.com.au 17550 203.134.67.67:1666 Original-X-Complaints-To: Abuse, including message IDs to abuse@pipenetworks.com Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!peer01.west.cox.net!cox.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!news.moat.net!nntp.waia.asn.au!202.72.130.18.MISMATCH!quokka.wn.com.au!token.pipenetworks.com!218.100.2.59.MISMATCH!not-for-mail Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:139408 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:35031 Archived-At: Hi I was reading the C-h k C-x C-e, I wanted to print the output of C-xC-e to the current buffer, it says **************************************************************** C-x C-e runs the command eval-last-sexp which is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `emacs-lisp/lisp-mode'. (eval-last-sexp EVAL-LAST-SEXP-ARG-INTERNAL) Evaluate sexp before point; print value in minibuffer. Interactively, with prefix argument, print output into current buffer. **************************************************************** I don't understand what prefix argument to give and where in the sequence of the keys C-x C-e thanks