Re: Repeat count for yanking

[Deniz Dogan]

On 2011-07-21 23:39, Steinar Bang wrote:
> > > > > > pmlists@free.fr (Peter Münster):
>
> > You can put the yank into a keyboard macro and use the prefix argument
> > to call the macro 100 times.
>
> That would be `C-x ( C-y C-x )' to define the macro (and as a side
> effect do a single yank), and then `C-u 99 C-x e' to execute the macro
> 99 times (to get the remaining 99 yanks).
>
> It's less effort than you might think, since creating a keyboard macro
> for a repetitive task, is something you do frequently once you've
> discovered it (at least I did).

I advised `yank' so that C-u 100 C-y yanks 100 times instead (which is 
much more useful in my opinion):

(defadvice yank (around damd-yank first nil activate)
  "If ARG is neither nil nor \\[universal-argument], yank ARG times.
Otherwise, use the original definition of `yank'."
  (if (or (not arg)
          (consp arg))
      ad-do-it
    (dotimes (i arg)
      (yank))))

Deniz