[TxMt] repeat command? Is there/can there be one?

[William D. Neumann]

Apologies if this has been discussed before, I'm away from my mail archive 
and I couldn't search.

One of the more useful features of vim (for me at least) is the ability to 
pass a number as a parameter to a command, most of which used that as the 
number of times to repeat the command (though there are more specialized 
commands, like n%, which positions the cursor n% of the way down from the 
top of the file).  This is especally useful for operations like "delete 
the next 10 tokens" (10dw), or jump down 25 lines (25j -or- 
25<down-arrow>), and I really made use of it when prototyping OCaml code 
with its toplevel loop, where errors in long functions are pointed out by 
the number of characters from the start of the input string, not its line 
and column numbers...  So if I am told there's a problem with the code 
between characters  2674 and 2679, I just have to position the cursor at 
the top of the text I entered and enter 2674<right-arrow> and it will take 
me to the start of the offending code.

Now, as far as I can tell, TextMate doesn't have anything like this built 
in (a "repeat the next event n times" command), or am I just missing it 
somewhere?  If it's not in there, could you consider this as a feature 
request for such a thing?

One more thing, might it be possible to alter the behavior of Go to 
Line... to also accept a negative number, -n, and go to line n from 
the bottom?

Would anyone else find these things useful, or am I the only odd one in 
the bunch?

William D. Neumann

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