Fred Stluka <f...@bristle.com> writes: > On 5/23/17 4:43 PM, Ben Finney wrote: > > > The ‘set-selective-display’ command […] is bound to ‘C-x $’ in > > default Emacs. > > How do I specify the number of columns when using "C-x $"?
You will remember, from doing the Emacs tutorial when you first learned Emacs, that all commands have a “prefix argument” available <URL:https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/PrefixArgument> that the command can use to modify its behaviour. So, use the prefix argument to specify the number of columns for ‘set-selective-display’. E.g.: M-9 C-x $ # Indentation >= 9 disappears. C-u C-x $ # Indentation >= 4 disappears. C-u 1 3 C-x $ # Indentation >= 13 disappears. C-u C-u C-u $ # Indentation >= 64 disappears. C-x $ # All lines reappear. etc. > Same for using the command at the M-x prompt. I type "M-x" and see the > M-x prompt, then then type "set-selective-display" using tab to > autocomplete it. But I can't then type a column number after a space > or in parens or anything. What am I missing? Time to work through the Emacs tutorial again; ‘C-h t’ :-) -- \ “I call him Governor Bush because that's the only political | `\ office he's ever held legally.” —George Carlin, 2008 | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
