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Tue, 28 Jun 2022 14:10:35 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: 5 X-Spam_score: 0.5 X-Spam_bar: / X-Spam_report: (0.5 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.001, FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD=1, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN=0.249, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.9, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action 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:235529 Archived-At: > With a single keybinding, you can duplicate once, visually confirm > that this is what you want to do, and keep duplicating (possibly even > holding the key down to repeat!) until you have the number of copies > you want. If you go too far, just undo. In other words, it behaves > just like any basic text-editing feature. And all of this is > available, with exactly the same key, for regions and rectangles! > > None of that is possible with a multi-key binding. If you made too > many copies you have to erase them by hand, or undo and restart the > process with a new prefix number. All of this adds cognitive load, and > each attempt requires a series of keypresses. For this use case 'repeat' seems quite usable: M-x copy-line C-x z z z z z or whatever number of zs you need. Helmut