Emacs repeat string n times
I'm learning the basics of navigating/editing in Emacs and I'm curious how one could accomplish the following task: Repeat the string 'bla ' n times in normal text editing mode. Let's say I want to repeat it five times to generate 'bla bla bla bla bla '. I tried... C-u 5 bla ...but the command executes after the 'b' is entered, and I only get 'bbbbb'. I'm sure there's some basic command that can help me here...would somebody be kind enough to enlighten me :)? One way is via a keyboard macro : C-x ( bla C-x ) C-u 4 C-x e You can also just insert the repeat count before the macro termination: C