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From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Inserting 100 zeroes
Message-ID: <12012@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 30 Aug 88 13:17:28 GMT
References: <3999@freja.dk>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <3999@freja.dk> seindal@freja.dk (Rene' Seindal) writes:
| 
| How do I insert one hundred zeroes in a buffer?  For any non-digit character I
| just do "C-u 1 0 0 <ch>", but of course, this does not work for digits.  How
| can it be done, less of typing 100 zeroes manually.

  You should be able to use the "quote" key between the repeat count and
the digit to be repeated.
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	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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