Re: Repeat count for yanking

[Andreas Röhler]

Am 05.07.2011 14:44, schrieb Thierry Volpiatto:
> Perry Smith<pedzsan@gmail.com>  writes:
>
> > On Jul 5, 2011, at 6:46 AM, Richard Riley wrote:
> >
> > > C K Kashyap<ckkashyap@gmail.com>  writes:
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > > How can I provide a repeat count to yank -
> > > >
> > > > I'd like to kill a line and then paste it 100 times - how can I
> > > > achieve this?
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > > Kashyap
> > >
> > > I was looking at this recently.
> > >
> > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/71985/emacs-equivalent-of-vims-yy10p
> >
> > If it is a one time thing, I usually do it in powers of two.  e.g. yank it 
> > maybe 4 times, then kill that and yank 4 times.  Now you have 16 lines.  ...
> >
> > Remember that M-<  sets the mark.  So if you narrow the region you can paste a 
> > lot of lines rather quickly.
> >
> > If I was going to do this moderately frequently, I would toy around and learn 
> > how to do it via M-; (eval).  Seems like one line of lisp could do this.
> M-: (loop repeat 5 do (progn (yank) (insert "\n")))

nice, and what about that:

(defun yank-repeat (&optional arg)
  (interactive "p")
  (dotimes (i arg)
    (insert (car kill-ring))))