Re: CTL-u for complicated commands

[Kevin Rodgers]

Robert Marshall wrote:

> > 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


I've always found it annoying that specifying 0 as the arg to
call-last-kbd-macro does not run it 0 times.  I prefer to specify
a negative argument (C-u -) to run it til an error is signalled.


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


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Kevin Rodgers