Re: This is a simple question

[Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov>]

Pascal Obry <p.obry@wanadoo.fr> writes:

> "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@home.com> 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)
>         <do whatever you want>
>         C-x )                             (end macro)
> 
>         C-x e                             (repeat 1 time)
> 
>         C-u 100 C-x e                     (repeat 100 times).

Note that this precisely defines "whatever was last done". It can be
one command, or several. I find that more Ada-like (just to bring this
vaguely back on topic :).

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-- Stephe