bug#25454: 25.1; improvement ftoopy-from-above-command

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Francesco Potortì <pot@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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