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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: 18 Sep 88 01:55:20 GMT
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In article <12151@steinmetz.ge.com> davidsen@kbsvax.steinmetz.UUCP
(William E. Davidsen Jr) writes:
>|In article <1588@daimi.UUCP>, jnp@daimi.UUCP (J|rgen N|rgaard) writes:
>|> Numerals _ARE_ special.
>  You must be using some brain damaged version of emacs which doesn't
>have the quote function implemented (correctly).

Actually, treating numerals specially _is_ the correct implementation
-- if you are using GNU emacs.  The documentation for quoted-insert
reads:

	       Read next input character and insert it.
	       Useful for inserting control characters.
	       You may also type up to 3 octal digits,
	       to insert a character with that code.

Perhaps misunderstandings such as this could be avoided in the future
if posters would identify the flavor of emacs being referred to.

David M. Jones.