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


From: Juri Linkov
Subject: bug#25454: 25.1; improvement ftoopy-from-above-command
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2019 23:50:25 +0300
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)

>> 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?
>
> Hm...  I guess that's possible.  But the "copy the previous line but
> increase the numbers" seems like a somewhat obscure thing to add to a
> command like that, but perhaps I'm just not seeing the use case.

What I do in these cases is copy the current line ARG times,
and then use query-replace with \# to increment numbers.
I prefer query-replace for its flexibility since numeric formats
and initial numeric values vary wildly.





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