[WHL] Re: [WHL] Re: Question about usage of C-number and M-number

[Ben Wing]

That's not quite what I meant; what I meant is, if you use C-num or M-num to
specify numeric arguments to another command, which one do you use?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adrian Aichner [mailto:adrian at xemacs.org] 
> Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 1:56 AM
> To: Ben Wing
> Cc: 'Adrian Aichner'; 'Johann Myrkraverk Oskarsson'; 'XEmacs Beta'
> Subject: [WHL] Re: [WHL] Re: Question about usage of C-number 
> and M-number
> 
> 
> "Ben Wing" <ben at 666.com> writes:
> 
> > This link appears broken:
> 
> Myrkraverk, where is that mode now?
> 
> >
> > http://www.myrkraverk.com/~myrkraverk/window-number.el
> >
> > In any case, adrian, which [if either] do you use for 
> digit-argument?
> 
> Ben, in window-meta-mode that would be just M-0, M-1, ...
> 
> In window-number-mode it's
> C-x C-j 0 ((lambda nil (interactive) 
> (window-number-select-nth 0))) and so on.
> 
> Adrian
> 
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Adrian Aichner [mailto:adrian at xemacs.org]
> >> Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 6:07 PM
> >> To: Ben Wing; Johann Myrkraverk Oskarsson
> >> Cc: 'XEmacs Beta'
> >> Subject: [WHL] Re: Question about usage of C-number and M-number
> >> 
> >> 
> >> "Ben Wing" <ben at 666.com> writes:
> >> 
> >> > I have made up some very useful functions which make it 
> easy to cut
> >> > and paste to registers.  The idea is that C-num copies 
> text to the 
> >> > specified register and M-num pastes the text.  C-M-num 
> appends to a 
> >> > register, and adding S- to either C- or C-M- cuts instead 
> >> of copying.
> >> >
> >> > I've written these so that the use of C-num does not 
> interfere with
> >> > its use for digit-argument, since it only takes effect when 
> >> a region
> >> > is active.
> >> >
> >> > I'm thinking of putting these into XEmacs, but I want to know:
> >> >
> >> > Do people tend to use C-num or M-num for digit-argument?  I
> >> can revise
> >> > the keybindings so that either one remains, but I'd like to know
> >> > current usage.
> >> 
> >> Ben, could you please also review
> >> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.xemacs.patches/4588
> >> which might not be entirely unrelated.
> >> 
> >> I am refering to the gmane archives, because I can't figure
> >> out how to hit this in our own :-(
> >> 
> >> The patch proposes to support numbered access to windows in XEmacs.
> >> 
> >> I have run with this patch since then and haven't seen any
> >> problems with this.
> >> 
> >> Best regards,
> >> 
> >> Adrian
> >> 
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> 
> >> --
> >> Adrian Aichner
> >>  mailto:adrian at xemacs.org
> >>  http://www.xemacs.org/
> >> 
> >
> >
> 
> -- 
> Adrian Aichner
>  mailto:adrian at xemacs.org
>  http://www.xemacs.org/
>