bug#46621: Copy line

[Andreas Schwab]

On Feb 22 2021, Helmut Eller wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 22 2021, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
>> More importantly, I see no description of the situations where such a
>> copy is needed, so it is hard to analyze reason about the necessity.
>
> One example where copy-line would be useful is editing configuration
> files.  E.g. /etc/ssh/sshd_config list many options with the default
> value but as comments, like so:
>
>   #SyslogFacility AUTH
>   #LogLevel INFO
>   ... other options ...
>   
> Now, if I want to change LogLevel to say DEBUG, I would copy the line,
> keep the original, and edit the copied line.

But you don't need the repeat count for that.  copy-from-above-command
will work well for this task.

Andreas.

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