* C-u usage
@ 2010-08-17 9:24 Andreas Röhler
2010-08-17 9:51 ` Tassilo Horn
2010-08-17 11:55 ` Carsten Dominik
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From: Andreas Röhler @ 2010-08-17 9:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode; +Cc: Carsten Dominik
Hi Carsten,
while dealing with the key/command-name issue,
thanks for the last hint BTW, works now,
stumble over
C-u C-u C-u <TAB>
Don't it break common Emacs usage somehow?
The problem arises, as C-h k does not report a
combination starting with C-u...
Just for consideration.
Andreas
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* Re: C-u usage
2010-08-17 9:24 C-u usage Andreas Röhler
@ 2010-08-17 9:51 ` Tassilo Horn
2010-08-17 11:55 ` Carsten Dominik
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From: Tassilo Horn @ 2010-08-17 9:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de> writes:
Hi Andreas,
> C-u C-u C-u <TAB>
>
> Don't it break common Emacs usage somehow?
No, that's the usual way to provide an universal argument (a number) to
a command.
> The problem arises, as C-h k does not report a
> combination starting with C-u...
`C-u' is a command by itself: `universal-argument'
To get to the "real" function's docs, leave out the C-u (optionally
followed by a number) part when typing at the `C-h k' prompt.
Bye,
Tassilo
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* Re: C-u usage
2010-08-17 9:24 C-u usage Andreas Röhler
2010-08-17 9:51 ` Tassilo Horn
@ 2010-08-17 11:55 ` Carsten Dominik
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From: Carsten Dominik @ 2010-08-17 11:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Andreas Röhler; +Cc: emacs-orgmode
Hi Andreas,
On Aug 17, 2010, at 11:24 AM, Andreas Röhler wrote:
>
> Hi Carsten,
>
> while dealing with the key/command-name issue,
> thanks for the last hint BTW, works now,
>
> stumble over
>
> C-u C-u C-u <TAB>
>
> Don't it break common Emacs usage somehow?
No, it is customary that C-u changes the behavior as a function.
Admittedly Org does this more extensively than other programs.
>
> The problem arises, as C-h k does not report a
> combination starting with C-u...
Yes, for your command name listing this is a problem.
Two cases
1. Using prefix arguments actually internally calls a different command.
Then one can try to find this command, and if it can be called in a
stand-alone way, it would actually be useful to give this indirect
command
in the list
2. The prefix argument just modified the command a bit - here I think
we have no choice but to repeat the command name as it was given
for the
un-prefixed call. Normally one would in fact describe the effect
of the
prefix arg in the description of the un-prefixed command. But
sometimes
I have found it useful to list the prefixed call explicitly.
HTH
- Carsten
>
> Just for consideration.
>
> Andreas
- Carsten
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