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Re: Yanking multiple times
From: |
Balaji Venkataraman |
Subject: |
Re: Yanking multiple times |
Date: |
Fri, 30 May 2003 18:09:17 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.1 (usg-unix-v) |
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!
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