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- From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
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- Subject: Re: What's a prefix argument?
- Date: 31 Aug 1992 05:37:05 GMT
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- A prefix argument is a numeric argument (e.g. when you get when you prefix
- a command with M-digits or C-u). I don't know why the documentation uses
- this term all the time; I can't find it in the online manual.
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- Barry Margolin
- System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.
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