In Vim, you can go 30i=<esc> to type 30 = signs. (This is handy for taking notes, becaus I like to put a bunch of equals signs under different section headers.)
Is there a way to do this in Kakoune? A numerical prefix on an insert session only types the content once.
There's some discussion of this topic here, where the most relevant comment seems to be:
Since #4041, we can create overlapping selections with the
+command andAlt++to merge them.Example – Insert 80 asterisks:
80+i*<esc><a-+>
I can't quite get this to work myself (it does create a line of 80 * characters, but I'm not able to exit whatever mode I've gotten myself into at that point), but I haven't used kak before, so perhaps it will be more obvious to you.
