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25.1; improvement ftoopy-from-above-command

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Message #13 received at 25454 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: Francesco Potortì <pot <at> gnu.org>, 25454 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#25454: 25.1; improvement ftoopy-from-above-command
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2019 07:29:48 -0400

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:

> Francesco Potortì <pot <at> gnu.org> writes:
>
>> This is the version I use:
>>
>> it copies line from above as the stock one, but when called repeatedly
>> it copies from further above lines.  Moreover, when called with a
>> numeric argument, increments all the numbers fund in the copied text by
>> the argument.
>
> This seems pretty useful, but it's an incompatible change, since ARG is
> currently:
>
> Copy ARG characters, but not past the end of that line.
>
> So I don't think this would be a candidate for inclusion in Emacs, but
> perhaps it could be rewritten and made into a M/ELPA package?

Seems a bit small for a separate package.  And the repeated call thing
could be useful in itself.  Couldn't the increment behaviour be enabled
by a non-numeric argument instead?

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