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From: dmjones@athena.mit.edu (David M. Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Inserting 100 zeroes
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Date: 27 Aug 88 09:13:51 GMT
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In article <9940@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> earleh@eleazar.dartmouth.edu
(Earle R. Horton) writes:
>In article <3999@freja.dk> seindal@freja.dk (Rene' Seindal) writes:
>>How do I insert one hundred zeroes in a buffer?
>
>ESC 1 0 0 C-q 0 6 0

Of course, if you don't happen to remember octal codes for the digits,
you can always do 

ESC ESC (insert-char ?0 100)

Of course, it has the disadvantage of taking more keystrokes.

David Jones.