Emacs repeat string n times

command, editing, emacs, repeat, string

Solution

One way is via a keyboard macro:

C-x (bla C-x)C-u4C-xe

You can also just insert the repeat count before the macro termination:

C-x (bla C-u5C-x)

Problem

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 :)?

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