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From: Paul R <paul.r.ml@gmail.com>
To: Corey Foote <coreyfoote@hotmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Inserting numeric characters multiple times
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:23:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hc439nv6.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BLU105-W47CD09253EC1C560412A6DAD90@phx.gbl> (Corey Foote's message of "Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:08:10 -0500")


Corey> Normally when I want to insert a single character multiple times
Corey> I type C-u N and then the character, where N is the number of
Corey> time I want it inserted. How would I do this if the character was
Corey> a number?

to print 10 times number 3, you can do 

   3 C-u 9 C-x z

definitly hackish ...

-- 
  Paul




  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-01-13 16:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-13 16:08 Inserting numeric characters multiple times Corey Foote
2009-01-13 16:15 ` Drew Adams
2009-01-13 16:23 ` Paul R [this message]
2009-01-13 16:26 ` Peter Dyballa

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