Re: How can I move my cursor 80 characters with a key binding?

[Cameron Desautels]

On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 12:25:18AM -0600, Cameron Desautels wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 10:08:54PM -0800, Scott Teresi (sent by Nabble.com) 
> wrote:
> > I'm trying to figure out how to bind a key combination to a function
> > which would move the cursor forward about 80 characters (or back 80
> > characters). I sometimes type very long lines in emacs and would
> > like to be able to navigate through the line quicker than one space
> > at a time or one word at a time. Thanks for any advice anyone can
> > provide!
> 
> Is ``C-u 8 0 C-f'' too long for you?  You do it with a function if you
> really wanted to..

Such a function, btw, could look like this:

(global-set-key "\C-cf" '(lambda ()
                            (interactive)
                            (forward-char 80)))

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Cameron Desautels <cam@apt2324.com>


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