AFAICS the function org-shiftmetadown is not implemented to handle the numeric prefix argument as a count of actions.

You can use a keyboard macro to use the prefix argument as a count for the number of repetitions.

One recipe which might do what you want goes like this:

C-x C-( M-S-down C-x C-) C-x C-k b F5 

With the lines above F5 calls the macro (which does the M-S-down.)

The macro can handle numeric prefix arguments. E.g.

C-u 23 F5 

calls the macro 23 times.

AFAICS the function org-shiftmetadown is not implemented to handle the numeric prefix argument as a count of actions.

You can use a keyboard macro to use the prefix argument as a count for the number of repetitions.

One recipe which might do what you want goes like this:

C-x ( M-S-down C-x ) C-x C-k b F5 

With the lines above F5 calls the macro (which does the M-S-down.)

The macro can handle numeric prefix arguments. E.g.

C-u 23 F5 

calls the macro 23 times.

AFAICS the function org-shiftmetadown is not implemented to handle the numeric prefix argument as a count of actions.

You can use a keyboard macro to use the prefix argument as a count for the number of repetitions.

One recipe which might do what you want goes like this:

C-x C-( M-S-down C-x C-) C-x C-k b F5 

With the lines above F5 calls the macro (which does the M-S-.)

The macro can handle numeric prefix arguments. E.g.

C-u 23 F5 

calls the macro 23 times.

AFAICS the function org-shiftmetadown is not implemented to handle the numeric prefix argument as a count of actions.

You can use a keyboard macro to use the prefix argument as a count for the number of repetitions.

One recipe which might do what you want goes like this:

C-x C-( M-S-down C-x C-) C-x C-k b F5 

With the lines above F5 calls the macro (which does the M-S-down.)

The macro can handle numeric prefix arguments. E.g.

C-u 23 F5 

calls the macro 23 times.