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Re: C-u - does not work
From: |
Cecil Westerhof |
Subject: |
Re: C-u - does not work |
Date: |
Wed, 08 Jun 2016 21:41:23 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) |
On Wednesday 1 Jun 2016 00:00 CEST, hasm@example.invalid wrote:
>
>> When I want four - I would expect the following to work:
>> C-u -
>> but it does not.
>
> You can enter a number after C-u, defaulting to 4, number can be
> positive or negative. When you type -, emacs things you are
> composing a negative number.
I should have thought about that. :-(
But the situation I started with (but dumped down) was that I did:
C-u C-u -
With ‘C-u C-u’ I already signified that I want 16, so why does that
not work and do I have to give:
C-u 16-
Not really a problem, but just wondering.
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Cecil Westerhof
Senior Software Engineer
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof