Subject: bug#10927: 24.0.93; propose newline-and-indent to have numeric argument

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2019 16:47:37 -0700

sindikat <[email-masked]> writes:

> Currently newline-and-indent does not accept numeric agrument,
> thus, for example C-u 5 M-x newline-and-indent does not create 5
> newlines, while C-u 5 M-x newline does
>
> I want to propose this function to accept numeric argument. It is useful
> when one has newline-and-indent bound to RET.
>
> Also if next-line-add-newlines set to true, it is helpful to enable C-u
> 5 M-x next-line to create 5 newlines, when end of buffer is met.

Sounds reasonable to me, so I've now done this in Emacs 27.

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