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It's not exactly luck. Until today this question hasn't been active since 2009, when opened-ended questions were permitted. Now that it's been bumped it'll be closed shortly.
Closed now. I'm actually surprised that someone hasn't gone through all the older questions looking for stuff to close, given how rigid their mods tend to be.
Good god. I've been using emacs since 1981 and this thread is teaching me things.
slime - emacs package for editing, running, debugging and enjoying lisp.
The kill ring. I would marry the kill ring and have its babies. Why have other editors not adopted this? Have they?
Ctrl-k
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Less cynically, Stack Overflow is about specific answers to specific questions. Any question broad enough to be interesting to a site like Hacker News is too broad for Stack Overflow, apparently.
Makes sense, but it's insane. More general answers are more generally useful than specific ones, by definition.
record and play macro (someone had to mention) C-x ( C-x ) C-x e M-x 99 C-x e (play macro 99 times)
Also note that C-u 0 C-x e plays the macro until it rings the bell (e.g. runs out of buffer space or tries to forward-search for a name that doesn't exist. This is great when you don't know how many times it needs to be run.
The kill ring. I would marry the kill ring and have its babies. Why have other editors not adopted this? Have they?
If (like me) you are a Vim user, there is a plugin to replicate this functionality called YankRing. Highly recommended! http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1234
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I wish the Windows Clipboard would implement a version of the kill ring. I really, really hate not having previous cuts and copies available. As a rather clumsy work-around I keep an emacs scratch file open on my task bar and copy stuff I might need more than once to it.
Same with the Mac clipboard.