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How do you move the pointer up or down multiple lines with Emacs?

I can move my pointer up and down one line with my arrow key just fine in Emacs, so I'd like to redefine C-n and C-p to move up and down 5 lines at a time.

I'm just beginning to learn how to use Emacs, and elisp is very alien to me. I tried using the GNU Emacs lisp reference, but I couldn't find how to bind a keystroke to multiple commands.

Here's what I have so far (concentrating on the moving up definition):

(global-set-key "\C-p"  '(loop for i in '(1 2 3 4 5) do ('previous-line)))

But, this brings up an error message when I hit C-p, "Wrong type argument."

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

Solution

  • Those function (I believe next-line and previous-line) accept an optionnal argument with C-u, so i think that (next-line 5) would do what you want.

    Edit: so I just tried and that would be

    (global-set-key (kbd "C-n")
    (lambda () (interactive) (next-line 5)))

    And the same with C-p and previous-line.

    (Fiew not simple to write code in a textarea with a phone keyboard ^^)