Is there a (repeat-last-command) in Emacs?
Repeat last command
C-xz
Once you pressed it, just press only z after that and it will repeat (without having to press C-x again).
Yes, there is a repeat command. It's called repeat
:
- You can repeat commands with C-x z, and hit z to keep repeating.
A bit shocking nobody mentioned repeat-complex-command
, available from the key binding C-x ESC ESC.
with regards to 'describe-last-function':
There's a variable last-command
which is set to a symbol representative of the last thing you did. So this elisp snippet - (describe-function last-command)
- ought to bring up the documentation for the thing that immediately happened.
So you could make a trivial working describe-last-function
like so
(defun describe-last-function()
(interactive)
(describe-function last-command))
Put that elisp in .emacs
or equivalent, and you'll have a M-x describe-last-function.
If you've banged on a few keys or done something that modified last-command since the thing you're interested in, the command-history
function might be of interest. You can get that by M-x command-history
Repeat functionality is provided by the repeat.el
Emacs Lisp package, which is included with standard Emacs distributions. From repeat.el
's documentation:
This package defines a command that repeats the preceding command, whatever that was, including its arguments, whatever they were. This command is connected to the key C-x z. To repeat the previous command once, type C-x z. To repeat it a second time immediately after, type just z. By typing z again and again, you can repeat the command over and over.
To see additional information about the repeat command, type C-h F repeat RET from within Emacs.