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

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Published on 2010-04-17T06:57:33Z Indexed on 2010/04/17 7:03 UTC
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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!

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