Re: C-u - does not work

[Cecil Westerhof]

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
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