From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul R Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Inserting numeric characters multiple times Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:23:09 +0100 Message-ID: <87hc439nv6.fsf@gmail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1231863825 7065 80.91.229.12 (13 Jan 2009 16:23:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:23:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Corey Foote Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 13 17:24:57 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LMm4W-0003Ca-7s for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:24:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36879 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LMm3F-0006yS-K3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:23:37 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LMm2v-0006yL-8K for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:23:17 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LMm2u-0006y3-0x for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:23:16 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=57906 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LMm2t-0006xz-SJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:23:15 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-bw0-f14.google.com ([209.85.218.14]:54294) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LMm2t-00077s-90 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:23:15 -0500 Original-Received: by bwz7 with SMTP id 7so315706bwz.7 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 08:23:12 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:cc:subject:references :date:in-reply-to:message-id:user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=ySpHFSNaNkW9PhIINfMFzGvoJTvO7kjq223/sF1qBtU=; b=IVKbFjCsA1jz+gqOZhSSDH6+PFGKFfbemTo1LLqzcGkcmegGauXMkA/m7QALsKG1tO rWUf8WH+bklK5djZUn1DdUk/a7ZnbVBoNZ/0Pl0kn6/698JMXi7tPuu1XYnsZSy5uRVI 3PUgZiL5eFpeNMb8ktAaWfiOQtfSZOHRWgoWU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version:content-type; b=Fgp+MLGXS71LrY1Nk0i8wbIFOSgZ2DSk7JKe4MhOOH3qSwLfVz+Z+0JeG78eu6TLQW Rx8GufszANcJu3AEsiFWkUGQjQSkURAKgpzQiljw6pKkF+pq42Pl11rsYyN7kHZyvroE 8Br4yO1zN3jzo6KMpjEd+sEGilZrscCyHA7/g= Original-Received: by 10.103.192.2 with SMTP id u2mr11358010mup.95.1231863791976; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 08:23:11 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from ubuT42 (pdc35-1-82-242-132-111.fbx.proxad.net [82.242.132.111]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id i7sm41572119mue.15.2009.01.13.08.23.10 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 13 Jan 2009 08:23:11 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: (Corey Foote's message of "Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:08:10 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:61301 Archived-At: 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