bug#46621: Copy line

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Mattias Engdegård <mattiase@acm.org> writes:

>> It's edgy compared to what it's supposed to be doing -- duplicating
>> lines.
>
> Well, now it does more. Do you mean that you prefer it wouldn't, or
> that we change the name?
> I have no strong opinion about the name but it would be a shame to
> make the command less useful.

I found the concept of "an easy command to duplicate the current line a
number of times" to be slightly useful in general, but I'm not sure
about whether extending it to regions makes much sense.  If you have a
region already, then `M-w C-y' will be more convenient to say, anyway.

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