Re: What programs do you make sure are installed on a new Linux

On 21 Nov 2024 04:31:13 GMT, Robert Riches wrote:

GNU Emacs lets you
experience the power of Control-U.  It is a prefix argument that
(oversimplification follows, but ...) multiplies the effect of the next
action by 4.

In general, it lets you type a numeric argument to the following command.

E.g.

    CTRL-U 8 right-arrow

moves 8 steps to the right.

    CTRL-U 2 0 X

enters “X” 20 times.