From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,8bc34e14e4555720 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-11 10:05:23 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!news1.tor.metronet.ca!nnrp1.tor.metronet.ca!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3BC5D151.2050209@home.com> From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010726 Netscape6/6.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: This is a simple question References: <9pk4t7$tbm$1@trog.dera.gov.uk> <87zo762rta.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <9pkc0r$m5j$1@trog.dera.gov.uk> <9pkddm$afh$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9pvdp5$8im$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3BC48598.80703@home.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 17:05:22 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.47.195 NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 11:05:22 MDT Organization: MetroNet Communications Group Inc. Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14296 Date: 2001-10-11T17:05:22+00:00 List-Id: Pascal Obry wrote: > "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" writes: >>GNU-Emacs could be vastly improved by make one single change: >>that is, support the ^C function that Prime's EMACS provided. ^C was >>a "repeat last function" binding. It would repeat the last keystroke, >>last macro, or last "whatever was done". When set up this way, you >>could do something like "execute macro" once, and then just ^C as often >>as required to repeat the function a few more times (there are better >>ways to repeat hundreds+ of times however). If you've never used this, >>you don't know what a convenience you are missing (which is why I don't >>use GNU-Emacs). I never had the time myself to investigate the effort >>that would be needed to fit this feature into GNU-Emacs. > > Not exactly what you want but: > > C-x ( (start macro) > > C-x ) (end macro) > > C-x e (repeat 1 time) > > C-u 100 C-x e (repeat 100 times). > > Pascal. But this is too inconvenient. I often want to repeat, not only C-x e on a one off basis, but I may C-k or any other editing command on an as needed basis. Repeating 100 times is fine if you *know* that it is 100 times. But with much of the content on successive (or prior) pages, this count requires extra effort to identify (and sometimes requires mental calculations -- ugh). Being able to repeat as you need it, while automatically paging forward (or backwards) is too convenient for me to give it up. -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://members.home.net/ve3wwg