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Re: philosophical bugs in emacs

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From: "Mark D. Baushke"
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 1990 22:46
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On 4 Sep 90 21:57:37 GMT, slehar@BUCASB.BU.EDU said:

slehar> [...]
slehar>   macro-three  instead of   macro-zero.   Now, to execute  the  macro,
slehar>   without argument  it would always  execute  macro-zero, whereas with
slehar>   argument it would execute the appropriate macro,  as in  "M-3 C-x e"
slehar>   to execute macro-three.
slehar> [...]

Hmmm...I like M-3 C-x e or C-u 3 C-x e as a way of executing the macro
three times.

slehar> [...]
slehar> the command.  For example to indent a region with two spaces, mark the
slehar> region (beginning  with C-2  then move  to   end) and  type  "M-2  M-x
shelar> [...]
slehar> C-2		mark beginning of region, then move to end

While C-2 may work on may terminals. It is better to specify C-@
(which is normally controll-shift-2) since that is what a user will
see after doing a M-x describe-bindings.
-- 
Mark D. Baushke
mdb@ESD.3Com.COM
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From: mdb@esd.3com.com ("Mark D. Baushke")
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Subject: Re: philosophical bugs in emacs
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