From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joost Kremers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: C-u - does not work Date: 1 Jun 2016 12:17:36 GMT Message-ID: References: <87r3cit0f3.fsf@Equus.decebal.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1464883815 22919 80.91.229.3 (2 Jun 2016 16:10:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2016 16:10:15 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 02 18:10:15 2016 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 1b8VCH-0008F3-Fg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Jun 2016 18:10:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48256 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b8VCG-0004iS-Io for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Jun 2016 12:10:12 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Trace: individual.net qV0wWXEwNRJdbDOmDjSZDAym+Ezy0JLxdOsvr2VVQaYTA51CAF Cancel-Lock: sha1:/d8qKh+C97FstZWYHS9BOKxeA6g= Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Editor: Emacs of course! User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:217940 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:110242 Archived-At: Cecil Westerhof wrote: > When I want four - I would expect the following to work: > C-u - > but it does not. C-u - is the negative prefix argument. (See the Elisp manual on prefix arguments.) So the - after C-u is not interpreted as a character that should invoke self-insert-command. -- Joost Kremers joostkremers@fastmail.fm Selbst in die Unterwelt dringt durch Spalten Licht EN:SiS(9)