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- <h4 class="subsection">32.2.4 Readline Arguments</h4>
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- <p>You can pass numeric arguments to Readline commands. Sometimes the
- argument acts as a repeat count, other times it is the <i>sign</i> of the
- argument that is significant. If you pass a negative argument to a
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- the <kbd>C-d</kbd> command an argument of 10, you could type ‘<samp>M-1 0 C-d</samp>’,
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