GNU bug report logs - #25454
25.1; improvement ftoopy-from-above-command

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Francesco Potortì <pot <at> gnu.org>

Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2017 20:01:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version 25.1

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

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Francesco Potortì <pot <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 25454 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25454: 25.1; improvement ftoopy-from-above-command
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2019 12:35:47 +0200
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?

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