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Re: Yanking multiple times
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Benjamin Rutt |
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Re: Yanking multiple times |
Date: |
Wed, 28 May 2003 21:43:47 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (usg-unix-v) |
Balaji Venkataraman <bvenkata+nospam@sm.intel.com> writes:
> How does one yank the same line multiple times? e.g. - do a C-a, C-k and
> then paste the same line 20 times (of course I don't want to hit C-y 20
> times). I understand that a numeric argument to C-y, goes back into the
> kill-ring by that much, rather than repeat the command.
You can do it with a keyboard macro. In CVS emacsen, you can do
F3 C-y F4
Then, pressing F4 will repeat the C-y. You can do C-u 20 F4 to repeat
the keyboard macro 20 times.
The same is true in older emacsen with older, still-supported
keybindings, via
C-x ( C-y C-x )
followed by
C-u 20 C-x e
--
Benjamin