rluserman: Readline Arguments

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1 1.2.4 Readline Arguments
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1 You can pass numeric arguments to Readline commands.  Sometimes the
1 argument acts as a repeat count, other times it is the sign of the
1 argument that is significant.  If you pass a negative argument to a
1 command which normally acts in a forward direction, that command will
1 act in a backward direction.  For example, to kill text back to the
1 start of the line, you might type 'M-- C-k'.
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1    The general way to pass numeric arguments to a command is to type
1 meta digits before the command.  If the first 'digit' typed is a minus
1 sign ('-'), then the sign of the argument will be negative.  Once you
1 have typed one meta digit to get the argument started, you can type the
1 remainder of the digits, and then the command.  For example, to give the
1 'C-d' command an argument of 10, you could type 'M-1 0 C-d', which will
1 delete the next ten characters on the input line.
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