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On 13 Nov 1997 23:57:49 GMT, Ilya <ibelooze@runet.edu> wrote:
> I thought that giving M-n argument to a command would make it do
> it several times.  So you want to move 10 lines down, you hit M-10
> C-n. The comand to move down one screen is C-v. So to move down
> 10 screens (about 400 lines) would be M-10 C-v.  However, when I
> try that it only moves n lines! what is going on and why is this
> happening?! What is the equivalent of vi's 10 C-f command?

The documentation for scroll-up and scroll-down clearly state that
the argument is the number of lines.  If no argument, then it is a
single screen.  Fortunatly, Emacs provides an easy way to enter a big
number without resorting to typing in the number itself.  The `universal
argument', C-u, corresponds to a power of 4 for functions wanting a
numeric argument.

So, if you just want to jump down by 256 lines, do this by:
C-u C-u C-u C-u C-v

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