From: "François Fleuret" <francois.fleuret@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: Yanking multiple times
Date: 29 May 2003 01:55:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <s02znl6d3th.fsf@wasabi.inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8an0h6vehl.fsf@sm.intel.com
Good evening,
Balaji Venkataraman wrote on 29 May 2003 00:27:34 MET:
> 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.
C-u 2 0 C-y
should do it. More generally, many keys can be "repeted" several times
by using the "universal argument". This is especially usefull for
macros (C-x e).
Regards,
--
François Fleuret
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-28 23:55 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 [this message]
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
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