From: Balaji Venkataraman <bvenkata+nospam@sm.intel.com>
Subject: Re: Yanking multiple times
Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 18:09:17 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8afzmvudky.fsf@sm.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: wc3he7eplws.fsf@gamma.cis.ohio-state.edu
On Wed, 28 May 2003 21:43:47 -0400, Benjamin Rutt
<rutt+news@cis.ohio-state.edu> wrote:
> Balaji Venkataraman <bvenkata+nospam@sm.intel.com> writes:
>
>> How does one yank the same line multiple times? e.g. - do a C-a, C-k and
>> then paste the same line 20 times (of course I don't want to hit C-y 20
>> times). I understand that a numeric argument to C-y, goes back into the
>> kill-ring by that much, rather than repeat the command.
>
> You can do it with a keyboard macro. In CVS emacsen, you can do
I usually have viper-mode on. It does help in a situation like
this. Strangely enough, I'd never thought about this problem earlier - can't
believe it's not one of the simpler things to do in emacs.
Thanks anyway!
--
Remember 2 + 2 = 5, for large values of 2
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-31 1:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-28 23:27 Yanking multiple times Balaji Venkataraman
2003-05-28 23:55 ` François Fleuret
2003-05-29 1:36 ` Balaji Venkataraman
2003-05-29 8:11 ` François Fleuret
2003-05-29 1:43 ` Benjamin Rutt
2003-05-31 1:09 ` Balaji Venkataraman [this message]
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