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From: mark@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Mark Davies)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Yanking N Times
Message-ID: <13369@comp.vuw.ac.nz>
Date: 19 Mar 88 01:53:51 GMT
References: <4622@aw.sei.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: mark@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Mark Davies)
Organization: Comp Sci, Victoria Univ, Wellington, New Zealand
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In article <4622@aw.sei.cmu.edu> dhm@sei.cmu.edu (Daniel Miller) writes:
>How do I yank the most recent kill N times?  [Of course, C-U N C-Y doesn't
>do it since that yanks the Nth most recent kill one time.]
>
>How do I yank the Mth most recent kill N times? [???]

On the odd times I want to do this I just perform the yank in a keyboard
macro and then give the prefix arg to the call-last-kbd-macro command.
ie.
	C-x(C-yC-x)M-<N-1>C-xe		where <N-1> represents the
					appropriate argument - 1

Of course if N is small its not worth it.
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