From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mathias Dahl Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: pasting many times Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 10:54:23 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20061023161409.GH12474@radix50.net> <87mz7mu7s9.fsf@hans.local.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1161683492 8601 80.91.229.2 (24 Oct 2006 09:51:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 09:51:32 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 24 11:51:30 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GcIwL-0006zt-3S for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Oct 2006 11:51:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GcIwK-0006YV-DS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Oct 2006 05:51:20 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsserver.news.garr.it!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Trace: individual.net eqZ4N4v1KS7Bvw33pD9WUAMq6ArAsj0VdBEPTRz2BQs/2Er21J User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:VADkxhHFfJwLMaH7sGU8ePLCUoY= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:142611 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:38232 Archived-At: Baurzhan Ismagulov writes: > I see :) , let me rephrase: My problem isn't much the number of > keystrokes, but an ability to repeat a simple command a certain > number of times, just like C-x RET c RET > . Defining a macro for such a thing just seems to be an > overkill. I have to agree with this. Some years ago, when I was quite green with Emacs and had just learnt how to use C-u together with different commands, I naturally tried to use it together with yank to yank the same text X number of times. To my surprise it did not work as I expected. Of course I know why now, and the reason is that the yank command interprets a numeric prefix command in a different way. Personally I don't think I ever used that functionality in yank, that is, being able to yank an older kill (I don't see how people can keep track of the number of the kill they want, I rather use M-y after doing C-y), although I am sure there are many who love this feature.