From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jambunathan K Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: copy and paste multiple times Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:40:31 +0530 Message-ID: <81sjj3mz54.fsf@gmail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1327515068 32453 80.91.229.12 (25 Jan 2012 18:11:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:11:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Rajanikanth Jammalamadaka Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 25 19:11:02 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Rq7JE-0004Tt-VL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:11:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50651 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rq7JE-0007yv-BB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:11:00 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:58146) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rq7J9-0007ya-MB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:10:56 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rq7J5-0000b7-Ff for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:10:55 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-pz0-f41.google.com ([209.85.210.41]:50282) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rq7J5-0000av-82 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:10:51 -0500 Original-Received: by dake40 with SMTP id e40so185993dak.0 for ; Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:10:50 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=bkxdKFf4ILejrPxgmR9/gDMLUbg9jgjSySnNweoJISA=; b=igS5UayvaC8vUQf4BEe+CTXIxF24ocu4BWLG593yayOBknk/aMRj9IOAq30PDhe5uy 26eOFjJGTUkRbjJoVNzI4o2OYrq8fD+hFT5traRqQb7v/mbEihdcDzX+Au1FDdK2A6EX OScxZ6LPkZViePsMnARrd78RTLzTSlooDzi4c= Original-Received: by 10.68.73.4 with SMTP id h4mr849166pbv.27.1327515050258; Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:10:50 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from JAMBU-NETBOOK ([115.184.35.51]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id i1sm4161855pbt.19.2012.01.25.10.10.45 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:10:49 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: (Rajanikanth Jammalamadaka's message of "Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:20:16 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.92 (windows-nt) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 209.85.210.41 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:83562 Archived-At: Rajanikanth Jammalamadaka writes: > This has been discussed below: > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/71985/ > emacs-equivalent-of-vims-yy10p=C2=A0 > > 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=20 > Thanks, > Raj > > > > --=20