From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Customizing universal-argument (C-u), instead of hardcoding 4? Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2016 08:02:46 -0500 Message-ID: References: <8737t4i2fg.fsf@red-bean.com> <87h9hkt9ic.fsf@red-bean.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1454936616 14344 80.91.229.3 (8 Feb 2016 13:03:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2016 13:03:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Karl Fogel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 08 14:03:27 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aSlTS-0006dr-8l for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Feb 2016 14:03:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44524 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aSlTR-00023C-Oz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Feb 2016 08:03:25 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60110) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aSlT0-0001zt-CG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Feb 2016 08:02:59 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aSlSw-0002VM-AH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Feb 2016 08:02:55 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:55531) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aSlSp-0002Sp-Ji; Mon, 08 Feb 2016 08:02:47 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aSlSo-0002ox-Mn; Mon, 08 Feb 2016 08:02:46 -0500 In-reply-to: <87h9hkt9ic.fsf@red-bean.com> (message from Karl Fogel on Sun, 07 Feb 2016 16:55:24 -0600) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:199504 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] Each command can distinguish a C-u from an explicit argument of 4. So if you want to make C-n and C-p move 5 instead, you can do it in those commands without changing anything else. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.