Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!mcvax!dkuug!freja!seindal
From: seindal@freja.dk (Rene' Seindal)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Inserting 100 zeroes
Message-ID: <4023@freja.dk>
Date: 1 Sep 88 00:56:36 GMT
References: <3999@freja.dk>
Organization: DIKU, U of Copenhagen, DK
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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.

I have received almost a million letters about this, all saying the same.  It
appears that there are four ways to do this in GNU emacs.  They are:

1.	Type 100 zeroes.

2.	Type ESC 1 0 0 C-q 0 6 0

3.	Type ESC ESC (insert-char ?0 100)

4.	Type C-x ( 0 ESC 99 C-x )

None of the solutions are very pleasing.  Good thing for us the need seldom
arises :-)

Anyway, now there has been put so much effort in it:

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Rene' Seindal, CS Dept., U. of Copenhagen, Denmark. (seindal@diku.dk)