From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Samuel Wales Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: interactive spec with reasonable numbers for c-u Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2022 17:49:07 -0700 Message-ID: References: <83y1uufmhl.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="11402"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 09 02:50:21 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 1oWSDt-0002lS-5Y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 09 Sep 2022 02:50:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33892 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oWSDr-0003iC-OH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 08 Sep 2022 20:50:19 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:40182) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oWSCq-0003i4-B6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Sep 2022 20:49:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-lf1-x134.google.com ([2a00:1450:4864:20::134]:42670) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oWSCn-0007BZ-UX; Thu, 08 Sep 2022 20:49:16 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-lf1-x134.google.com with SMTP id m15so91964lfl.9; Thu, 08 Sep 2022 17:49:11 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20210112; h=cc:to:subject:message-id:date:from:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:from:to:cc:subject:date; bh=YDhPji0BBTqJqprVYrl5tgxb0LxkWLsB+tkM++mGjLY=; b=Ix2J3dwCtytkiZDKOKQTKhXTJp7P72KjzYyvsSmCH7fW4x2jYmm3846/Zol1DXg8hF H5uuHN2djTlJYa6ph9Njm0/b5QjKZ43ArQvNZ4FqUUWDGmcxJhH1jVqvV8Pw0EM4szge z1p+lDo6xLJ6hKbnD4VQZDSxGguNWCtNV7VsCfXCPJSlPdLeZVj7a9YPENEQ9hk0n+tR 68gTfqBg8MVkUt2IpOQV8a93susI4weZr0EUOwmMCmpIwRQiNniXKJTGxIyL7LHtfOki P/nFOl06nqJyVDcbHYLUiKx2i8bfWUwKkZ1jxcp9k7J0rfxhpfyNn+dr0szSgVZDEutN ESLQ== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20210112; h=cc:to:subject:message-id:date:from:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:date; bh=YDhPji0BBTqJqprVYrl5tgxb0LxkWLsB+tkM++mGjLY=; b=krkd0q142WCvLJE3ETq4Q18Zov+hmneQLzTfC2YyPxlW8ghAKgcqGf4SSSBJHoFRRH OdsH9IMPpyxF/bKSOmYTq0TLZ3hCDaObPjKZrZKuz3/cWgdUQMMKq/uvutxBMq6znK8K lzdhtAClWMTqb9ZFr5/v86OEtaj+5Oz/TEDso4UOrHPwxr5a3B0E9YcsZzIYLKZ29Zdr p/X6yW4LBZc89J7xHuO3k2lrxM71+zMXa2XpDtw/3bPAho1mn3CA7sNBlmRURSB/YaEN d/s/SV/4mB5pSx5rvPkdiMKtLTm9BWqjYq4aVRs9qCEm6oxANVkIPKv5AqV56oC+OWp3 VG3Q== X-Gm-Message-State: ACgBeo0/D4c/gq+7QckeaI5DMRFbLLszLO+wKiUNisXkWlEMYOkMa3ZU NmTmSMNtimqqZ5jBjKaQRGOV7JhRwdJxd6kosNajEP21d9+7Xw== X-Google-Smtp-Source: AA6agR41afmwr7LVAllqMJdSziP2+MWERC1JTRXAx0P7SBbT3szs46mc1/1hZvvqjp8vIZT38gTH1wCOiJOyrjdBmhE= X-Received: by 2002:a05:6512:2251:b0:496:c3b9:c18d with SMTP id i17-20020a056512225100b00496c3b9c18dmr3314630lfu.403.1662684549247; Thu, 08 Sep 2022 17:49:09 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 2002:a05:6520:709:b0:215:af4a:870d with HTTP; Thu, 8 Sep 2022 17:49:07 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <83y1uufmhl.fsf@gnu.org> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=2a00:1450:4864:20::134; envelope-from=samologist@gmail.com; helo=mail-lf1-x134.google.com X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action 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:139333 Archived-At: On 9/7/22, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > [Please don't cross-post to both help-gnu-emacs and emacs-devel.] apologies to both, then. was in a moment of uncertainty and not doing well and sent too soon. > 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. never mind whole thing. there are surely greater things to be done with emacs than to mind this silly post.