Re: repeat the last command n times

["Florian Kaufmann" <sensorflo@gmail.com>]

As John said, it works as indicated. That is, it doesn't work together
with yank, because yank doesn't take the argument as a repeat count.
The existence of an argument just tells yank that the point should be
at the beginning of the inserted sequence after insertion. C-u 12 C-y
doesn't make 12 yanks, but 1 yank with the point being at beginning of
the inserted string. Now the documentation of repeat (that is C-x z)
sais that it passes the argument to the command to be repeated. Thus
C-y C-u 12 C-x z makes first a yank, then repeats it one time. After
the second yank, the repeated one, the point will be at the beginning
of the inserted string.

Flo