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Re: CTL-u for complicated commands
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Robert Marshall |
Subject: |
Re: CTL-u for complicated commands |
Date: |
Fri, 15 Aug 2003 13:46:49 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.1001 (Gnus v5.10.1) Emacs/21.2.95 (windows-nt) |
On 15 Aug 2003, Jussi Piitulainen wrote:
> schaecsn writes:
>
>> I can repeat commands via CTL-u <number> <command>. That doesn't
>> work always.
>>
>> Example: I want to format each paragraph in a text with ALT-q, so
>> what I would like to do is:
>>
>> CTL-u <a very big number> ALT-q <arrow-down>.
>>
>> Any ideas who this can be done?
>
> 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
assuming that arrow-down doesn't extend the bufffer (see
next-line-add-newlines)
R
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