How to repeat a type keystroke action multiple times

[JMichaelTX]

@ronald

Hello, I would like to create a macro to type the underscore character multiple, perhaps 100 times (ie create a line) in Pages

Rather than 100 underscores, have you considered pasting an HTML horizontal rule? I have a KM Named Clipboard, and corresponding macro, just for this purpose.

But if you really want to repeat a character (or a string), then you could use this JavaScript for Automation (JXA) script:

Repeat text x number of times

I’m not sure if this would make a difference in performance, but it might depending on the app you are typing/pasting into. Use this JXA script to generate the repeated text, and then do ONE paste. function run() { 'use strict'; var kme = Application('Keyboard Maestro Engine') var qtyToRepeat = kme.getvariable('Repeat Times') || 40; var textToRepeat = kme.getvariable('Repeat Text') || "~"; var filledStr = repeatString(textToRepeat, qtyToRepeat) return filledStr …