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From: mitch@Stride.COM (Thomas Mitchell)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Inserting 100 zeroes
Message-ID: <852@stride.Stride.COM>
Date: 31 Aug 88 17:07:32 GMT
References: <3999@freja.dk> <280@hropus.UUCP>
Reply-To: mitch@stride.stride.com.UUCP (Thomas Mitchell)
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In article <280@hropus.UUCP> jgy@hropus.UUCP (John Young) 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.
>Try "C-u 1 0 0 C-q 0 6 0" Not to clean but........

I always have trouble with octal so.  I think these bindings are common.

Define a quick keyboard macro		;;C-x(0C-x)
Then set up a count (already have 1)	;;C-u99
Now the keyboard macro 			;;C-xe

Does save looking up octal ;-)

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