Re: Repeat count for yanking

[Deniz Dogan <deniz@dogan.se>]

On 2011-07-21 23:39, Steinar Bang wrote:
>>>>>> pmlists@free.fr (Peter Münster):
>
>> You can put the yank into a keyboard macro and use the prefix argument
>> to call the macro 100 times.
>
> That would be `C-x ( C-y C-x )' to define the macro (and as a side
> effect do a single yank), and then `C-u 99 C-x e' to execute the macro
> 99 times (to get the remaining 99 yanks).
>
> It's less effort than you might think, since creating a keyboard macro
> for a repetitive task, is something you do frequently once you've
> discovered it (at least I did).
>

I advised `yank' so that C-u 100 C-y yanks 100 times instead (which is 
much more useful in my opinion):

(defadvice yank (around damd-yank first nil activate)
   "If ARG is neither nil nor \\[universal-argument], yank ARG times.
Otherwise, use the original definition of `yank'."
   (if (or (not arg)
           (consp arg))
       ad-do-it
     (dotimes (i arg)
       (yank))))

Deniz