From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: Shortcut to have the cursor move X number of lines up or down Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2013 13:50:58 -0700 Message-ID: References: <4dbd113f-ff71-4761-864a-b11e22fe90e4@googlegroups.com><9C3363AAAF9F4F749C69465B0EC4B2B2@us.oracle.com> <20130330204315.GA14155@dbn66.laserlab.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1364676728 22714 80.91.229.3 (30 Mar 2013 20:52:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2013 20:52:08 +0000 (UTC) To: "'Gregory Benjamin'" , Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 30 21:52:33 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1UM2lM-0001Wr-M0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Mar 2013 21:52:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36415 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UM2ky-000870-BV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Mar 2013 16:52:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:34913) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UM2k5-00078n-IU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Mar 2013 16:51:14 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UM2k3-0007xS-WB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Mar 2013 16:51:13 -0400 Original-Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:39812) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UM2k3-0007xO-OB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Mar 2013 16:51:11 -0400 Original-Received: from ucsinet21.oracle.com (ucsinet21.oracle.com [156.151.31.93]) by userp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.1/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.1) with ESMTP id r2UKp9a2005450 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Sat, 30 Mar 2013 20:51:10 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt357.oracle.com (acsmt357.oracle.com [141.146.40.157]) by ucsinet21.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r2UKp8kq001180 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 30 Mar 2013 20:51:08 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt109.oracle.com (abhmt109.oracle.com [141.146.116.61]) by acsmt357.oracle.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id r2UKp7sB009260; Sat, 30 Mar 2013 15:51:07 -0500 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/10.159.227.58) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Sat, 30 Mar 2013 13:51:07 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <20130330204315.GA14155@dbn66.laserlab.com> Thread-Index: Ac4thztbtP47gKJbQ3GRzxe8G569HwAANLiw X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 X-Source-IP: ucsinet21.oracle.com [156.151.31.93] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 156.151.31.81 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:89822 Archived-At: > > e.g., `C-6 C-n' moves down 6 lines. > > Wouldn't that be: 'C-u 6 C-n'? You can do 'C-u 6 C-p' to go up, > or 'C-u -6 C-n' to go up. C-6 has the same effect as C-u 6. C-- 6 has the same effect as C-u -6. C-- has the same effect as C-u -1.