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Re: Repeat count for yanking
From: |
Thierry Volpiatto |
Subject: |
Re: Repeat count for yanking |
Date: |
Tue, 05 Jul 2011 14:44:43 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Perry Smith <pedzsan@gmail.com> writes:
> On Jul 5, 2011, at 6:46 AM, Richard Riley wrote:
>
>> C K Kashyap <ckkashyap@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> How can I provide a repeat count to yank -
>>>
>>> I'd like to kill a line and then paste it 100 times - how can I
>>> achieve this?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Kashyap
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I was looking at this recently.
>>
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/71985/emacs-equivalent-of-vims-yy10p
>
> If it is a one time thing, I usually do it in powers of two. e.g. yank it
> maybe 4 times, then kill that and yank 4 times. Now you have 16 lines. ...
>
> Remember that M-< sets the mark. So if you narrow the region you can paste a
> lot of lines rather quickly.
>
> If I was going to do this moderately frequently, I would toy around and learn
> how to do it via M-; (eval). Seems like one line of lisp could do this.
>
>
M-: (loop repeat 5 do (progn (yank) (insert "\n")))
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