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Re: How can I move my cursor 80 characters with a key binding?
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Cameron Desautels |
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Re: How can I move my cursor 80 characters with a key binding? |
Date: |
Sun, 25 Dec 2005 00:31:13 -0600 |
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On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 12:25:18AM -0600, Cameron Desautels 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..
Such a function, btw, could look like this:
(global-set-key "\C-cf" '(lambda ()
(interactive)
(forward-char 80)))
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Cameron Desautels <cam@apt2324.com>
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