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From: jr@bbn.com (John Robinson)
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Subject: Re: RMAIL to mail format?
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Date: 8 Jun 90 15:33:34 GMT
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In article <57163@bbn.BBN.COM>, jr@bbn (John Robinson) writes:
>A handy feature of C-X ) [end-kbd-macro] is that it takes an argument
>for how many times to repeat the macro right away.  Hence the
>suggestion could be shortened to:
>
> C-X ( C-O f i l e n a m e <RET> d C-U 1 4 9 C-X )
>
>.. just repeating something I first heard here long ago ...

... and incorrctly.  Reading the whole help for C-X ), I see that the
first iteration is already counted, so I should have said:

  C-X ( C-O f i l e n a m e <RET> d C-U 1 5 0 C-X )

to get a total of 150 iterations.  I missed the final line of the help
buffer because its window was small.  Here's the explanation:

  end-kbd-macro:
  Finish defining a keyboard macro.
  The definition was started by C-x (.
  The macro is now available for use via C-x e,
  or it can be given a name with M-x name-last-kbd-macro and then invoked
  under that name.
  With numeric arg, repeat macro now that many times,
  counting the definition just completed as the first repetition.

... back to the well of souls.
--
/jr, nee John Robinson     Life did not take over the globe by combat,
jr@bbn.com or bbn!jr          but by networking -- Lynn Margulis