From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#46621: Copy line Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2021 01:22:12 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87tuq99ova.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <87y2fkrypp.fsf@gnus.org> <87ft1qq4b6.fsf@gnus.org> <87o8ge8ugr.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <87im6lls1r.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <189946C1-8CC9-4F7E-BAE6-FC19D2377D39@gnu.org> <87czwtlg3w.fsf@gnus.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="26787"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 46621@debbugs.gnu.org, juri@linkov.net, mardani29@yahoo.es To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 22 07:23:13 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lE4ci-0006rD-IK for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 22 Feb 2021 07:23:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58166 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lE4ch-0002dj-Hk for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 22 Feb 2021 01:23:11 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:49914) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lE4cZ-0002ch-8K for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Feb 2021 01:23:03 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:43857) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lE4cZ-00080m-1E for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Feb 2021 01:23:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lE4cY-0007Ek-U6 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Feb 2021 01:23:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2021 06:23:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 46621 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 46621-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B46621.161397494527741 (code B ref 46621); Mon, 22 Feb 2021 06:23:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 46621) by debbugs.gnu.org; 22 Feb 2021 06:22:25 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55399 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lE4bt-0007DK-Ql for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 22 Feb 2021 01:22:25 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:60066) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lE4br-0007D6-5x for 46621@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 22 Feb 2021 01:22:20 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:48392) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lE4bl-0007bw-OX; Mon, 22 Feb 2021 01:22:13 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1lE4bk-0006lF-LE; Mon, 22 Feb 2021 01:22:12 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87czwtlg3w.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Sun, 21 Feb 2021 14:12:19 +0100) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:200541 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > What is the use case for an Emacs user to need to copy a line 12 > > times, and is it frequent enough to justify binding the command to a > > key, and to C-c key on top of that? > That users are asking about a command like this on stackexchange seems to > indicate that some users would find this useful. Sure, but how much? Is it enough interest that we should cater to it? Adding to Emacs every function or command that some users would like would make it even more bloated. Of course, we add commands, but we should make sure each one is substantially useful. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)