copy and paste multiple times

copy and paste multiple times

[Rajanikanth Jammalamadaka]

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This has been discussed below:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/71985/emacs-equivalent-of-vims-yy10p

Is there no built-in (short :-)) command in emacs to copy and paste a
region multiple times?

Thanks,
Raj

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Re: copy and paste multiple times

[Andreas Röhler]

Am 25.01.2012 18:20, schrieb Rajanikanth Jammalamadaka:
> This has been discussed below:
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/71985/emacs-equivalent-of-vims-yy10p
>
> Is there no built-in (short :-)) command in emacs to copy and paste a
> region multiple times?
>
> Thanks,
> Raj
>

AFAIK not.

But is was discussed at this list and several proposals made.
Here is mine:


(defun yank-repeat (arg)
   "With numerical ARG, repeat last yank ARG times. "
   (interactive "p*")
   (dotimes (i arg)
     (insert (car kill-ring))))


Andreas

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Re: copy and paste multiple times

[Teemu Likonen]

* 2012-01-25T12:20:16-05:00 * Rajanikanth Jammalamadaka wrote:

> This has been discussed below:
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/71985/emacs-equivalent-of-vims-yy10p
>
> Is there no built-in (short :-)) command in emacs to copy and paste a
> region multiple times?

The Stack Overflow question is about copying *lines*, not *a region* as
you put it. Which one do you mean? Anyway, there is no as quick command
as Vi's "yy10p".

Possible solutions:

 1. Write a desired command yourself.
 2. Switch to viper-mode for a moment.
 3. Delete line with C-k C-k and then yank it several times with C-y.

My opinion is that yank command's numeric prefix argument should repeat
the yank. But Emacs is customizable and programmable, so I just do it:

    (global-set-key (kbd "C-y") (lambda (n)
                                  (interactive "p")
                                  (dotimes (i (abs n)) (yank))))

Re: copy and paste multiple times

[Rajanikanth Jammalamadaka]

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On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> wrote:

> * 2012-01-25T12:20:16-05:00 * Rajanikanth Jammalamadaka wrote:
>
> > This has been discussed below:
> > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/71985/emacs-equivalent-of-vims-yy10p
> >
> > Is there no built-in (short :-)) command in emacs to copy and paste a
> > region multiple times?
>
> The Stack Overflow question is about copying *lines*, not *a region* as
> you put it. Which one do you mean? Anyway, there is no as quick command
> as Vi's "yy10p".
>
> Possible solutions:
>
>  1. Write a desired command yourself.
>  2. Switch to viper-mode for a moment.
>  3. Delete line with C-k C-k and then yank it several times with C-y.
>
> My opinion is that yank command's numeric prefix argument should repeat
> the yank. But Emacs is customizable and programmable, so I just do it:
>
>    (global-set-key (kbd "C-y") (lambda (n)
>                                  (interactive "p")
>                                  (dotimes (i (abs n)) (yank))))
>

Thanks for the replies and short functions. I meant copy and paste a region
multiple times.

Raj

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RE: copy and paste multiple times

[Drew Adams]

> Is there no built-in (short :-)) command in emacs to copy
> and paste a region multiple times?

Others have given you one trivial solution: write a simple command to do it.

Another is to use a keyboard macro:

 C-x ( C-y C-x )

then

 C-u 200 C-x e

Re: copy and paste multiple times

[Jambunathan K]

Rajanikanth Jammalamadaka <rajanikanth@gmail.com> writes:

> This has been discussed below:
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/71985/
> emacs-equivalent-of-vims-yy10p 
>
> Is there no built-in (short :-)) command in emacs to copy and paste a
> region multiple times?

Use registers. Mark the region, store it in register `a' and insert the
contents of register `a' multiple times.

Mark region

C-x r s a

C-x r i a
C-x r i a 

> Thanks,
> Raj
>
>
>
>

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Re: copy and paste multiple times

[Philipp Haselwarter]

On Wed, Jan 25 2012 19:10 (@1327515031), Jambunathan K wrote:

> Rajanikanth Jammalamadaka <rajanikanth@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> This has been discussed below:
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/71985/
>> emacs-equivalent-of-vims-yy10p 
>>
>> Is there no built-in (short :-)) command in emacs to copy and paste a
>> region multiple times?
>
> Use registers. Mark the region, store it in register `a' and insert the
> contents of register `a' multiple times.
>
> Mark region
>
> C-x r s a
>
> C-x r i a
> C-x r i a 

Combine it with `repeat':

C-x r s a
C-x r i a
C-x z a z a z a ...

Still, 9 + 2 * n keystrokes

Actually it would be a nice feature to make the behaviour of `repeat'
customizable, so that if `repeat-pass-argument' is t, numeric argument
would be passed to the command, and if nil it would simply repeat the
last command with its previous argument.

Then you could just set the default and create wrappers with let-binds
of `repeat-pass-argument'.

It would simplify the above considerably (and make it more intuitive, in
my opinion):

M-w C-y C-u n C-x z
6 + lg(n) keystrokes…

Any takers?

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Philipp Haselwarter