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bug#25454: 25.1; improvement ftoopy-from-above-command
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Noam Postavsky |
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bug#25454: 25.1; improvement ftoopy-from-above-command |
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Sun, 01 Sep 2019 09:57:16 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.2.90 (gnu/linux) |
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org> writes:
>>>Lars:
>>>>Seems a bit small for a separate package. And the repeated call thing
>>>>could be useful in itself. Couldn't the increment behaviour be enabled
>>>>by a non-numeric argument instead?
>
>>Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org> writes:
>>> What do you suggest? Maybe M-3 M-p copies the next three characters,
>>> while C-u 3 M-p increments by three?
>
>>M-3 and C-u 3 do the same thing, I think?
>
> They normally do. And they do in this case. But it can be changed, and
> I was following up with your suggestion, with a proposal for a different
> user interface where M-3 and C-u 3 do different things.
No, both C-u 3 and M-3 will set the prefix argument to 3, so commands
cannot distinguish between them. I know I suggested the numeric vs
non-numeric thing, but I think I was just confused about it.
Non-numeric arguments are only good for a single toggle (increment vs no
increment), not control over a amount (increment by X). And you can't
express both at once (both increment and repeat).
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