Re: CTL-u for complicated commands

[Robert Marshall <spam@chezmarshall.freeserve.co.uk>]

On 15 Aug 2003, Jussi Piitulainen wrote:

> schaecsn writes:
> 
>> I can repeat commands via CTL-u <number> <command>. That doesn't
>> work always.
>> 
>> Example: I want to format each paragraph in a text with ALT-q, so
>> what I would like to do is:
>> 
>> CTL-u <a very big number> ALT-q <arrow-down>.
>> 
>> Any ideas who this can be done?
> 
> Make a keyboard macro and then repeat that. Your macro would be `C-x
> ( Alt-q <arrow-down> C-x )'. Then you try it a couple of times with
> `C-x e', and when it seems right, you do `C-u verybignum C-x e'.

Or - better - C-u 0 C-x e

assuming that arrow-down doesn't extend the bufffer (see
next-line-add-newlines)

R
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