C-u (universal-argument) doesn't multiply

[grothesque]

Thanks a lot for modalka, I find it so far very useful and much more practicable than other emacs modal extensions.

I have added

(modalka-define-kbd "u" "C-u")

so that pressing "un" moves the point down 4 lines. I notice that "uun" does not move the point down 16 lines like one would expect from "C-u C-u C-n".

[mrkkrp]

Thanks for reporting this! Indeed, I myself use this translation but "uun" results in moving point down 4 lines, the same as "un". This deserves an investigation, but unfortunately I have no time to perform it.

Could you try to investigate this perhaps?

[grothesque]

Could you try to investigate this perhaps?

Not in the following weeks, I have enough issues to attend to in code that I wrote...

[contrapunctus-1]

This seemed to work for me -

(define-key universal-argument-map (kbd "u") 'universal-argument-more)

Adapted from
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4808756/how-do-you-move-the-prefix-argument-to-a-different-key-in-emacs

(You don't want to undefine C-u in universal-argument-map though, if you see yourself using the modifier-based binding.)

Seems like a hack at best, though, because if you define translations via Modalka, you expect them to work in all situations.

[Kungsgeten]

I tried to define a new command in ryo-modal-mode (which started as a fork of modalka), and it seems to work for me:

(defun universal-argument-or-more ()
  "Call `universal-argument' or `universal-argument-more',
if there's already a `current-prefix-arg'."
  (interactive)
  (call-interactively
   (if current-prefix-arg
       #'universal-argument-more
     #'universal-argument)))

(modalka-define-kbd "u" #'universal-argument-or-more)