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Re: How can I move my cursor 80 characters with a key binding?
From: |
Slawomir Nowaczyk |
Subject: |
Re: How can I move my cursor 80 characters with a key binding? |
Date: |
Mon, 26 Dec 2005 13:32:47 +0100 |
On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 00:25:18 -0600
Cameron Desautels <cam@apt2324.com> wrote:
#> On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 10:08:54PM -0800, Scott Teresi (sent by Nabble.com)
wrote:
#> > I'm trying to figure out how to bind a key combination to a function
#> > which would move the cursor forward about 80 characters (or back 80
#> > characters). I sometimes type very long lines in emacs and would
#> > like to be able to navigate through the line quicker than one space
#> > at a time or one word at a time. Thanks for any advice anyone can
#> > provide!
#>
#> Is ``C-u 8 0 C-f'' too long for you? You do it with a function if you
#> really wanted to..
``C-8 0 C-f'' is even faster for me -- I know it runs forward-char 80
times instead of just once, but for reasonable values of 80 I prefer
computer to work harder if it saves me the extra keystroke :)
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Slawomir Nowaczyk
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