From: Baurzhan Ismagulov <ibr@radix50.net>
Subject: Re: pasting many times
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 21:36:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061024193619.GB15906@radix50.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ejsyu42f.fsf@hans.local.net>
On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 11:15:20PM +0200, Dieter Wilhelm wrote:
> > 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 <charset> RET <command>. Defining a macro
> > for such a thing just seems to be an overkill.
>
> C-x z (repeat) and then just zzzzzz (assuming Emacs 22.0.50).
Rephrasing again: the number of keystrokes is still important at the
second priority :) .
> No it isn't, M-5 9 C-y means that the command returns the 59th
> previous entry of the kill-ring list.
>
> (length kill-ring)60
> M-100 C-y seems to circle through the kill-ring.
Uh. Does anyone actually use this? I personally don't remember the
previous entry, let alone the 59th previous. Once I killed a block and
forgot to yank it; then, I was able to recover it from the clipboard
buffer.
> Why on earth do you need to paste the same paragraph 59 fold?
Glossary markup in a DocBook document.
> maybe there is a better solution for the complete problem, maybe we
> could change something with C-M-% automagically?
>
> Maybe it makes more sense to copy and edit the paragraphs more
> incrementally?
Couldn't think of anything like that, open to suggestions.
With kind regards,
Baurzhan.
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2006-10-23 15:31 ` pasting many times Holger Sparr
2006-10-23 16:14 ` Baurzhan Ismagulov
2006-10-23 19:55 ` Dieter Wilhelm
2006-10-23 20:52 ` Baurzhan Ismagulov
2006-10-23 21:15 ` Dieter Wilhelm
2006-10-24 19:36 ` Baurzhan Ismagulov [this message]
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2006-10-24 8:54 ` Mathias Dahl
2006-10-24 13:46 ` Drew Adams
2006-10-24 20:13 ` Dieter Wilhelm
2006-10-24 20:22 ` Drew Adams
2006-10-24 21:22 ` Dieter Wilhelm
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2006-10-25 18:09 ` rgb
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2006-10-26 17:49 ` David Kastrup
2006-10-27 17:39 ` Dieter Wilhelm
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2006-10-25 8:20 ` spamfilteraccount
2006-10-25 9:13 ` Sam Peterson
2006-10-25 15:22 ` Drew Adams
2006-10-25 12:18 ` Florian Kaufmann
2006-10-25 12:49 ` Holger Sparr
2006-10-25 14:21 ` Florian Kaufmann
2006-10-25 15:18 ` Holger Sparr
2006-10-25 18:54 ` Colin S. Miller
2006-10-26 7:49 ` Holger Sparr
2006-10-26 18:24 ` Colin S. Miller
2006-10-27 7:42 ` Holger Sparr
2006-10-28 5:17 ` don provan
2006-10-28 10:13 ` Colin S. Miller
2006-10-25 7:45 Bourgneuf Francois
2006-10-25 19:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2006-10-23 14:32 Baurzhan Ismagulov
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