Negative argument in Evil mode

Question

Is there a way to enter negative arguments in Evil in Emacs? i.e. I want to kill 5 lines back ward, instead of 5dd, is there something like -5dd?

Answer 1

Emacs supports this. The key control + dash or C-- invokes the command negative-argument, which does what you want. Unfortunately, evil doesn't handle negative arguments, and you get an error:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument characterp 67108909)
byte-code("..." [...] 9)
evil-extract-count([67108909 100])
evil-operator-range(t)
byte-code("..." [...] 5)
ad-Orig-call-interactively(evil-delete nil nil)
call-interactively(evil-delete nil nil)

What you want to do is not currently possible. If you want, you can contact the evil devs and/or file a bug report.