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Re: Inserting n instances (multiple) of the same character


From: Teemu Likonen
Subject: Re: Inserting n instances (multiple) of the same character
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:05:00 +0300
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux)

On 2009-09-17 05:57 (-0700), Nordlöw wrote:

> Is there a specific way to insert n number of characters, in my case
> space?

Yes, use a numeric prefix argument: C-u <n> <character>
So, if n is 10 and character is "a" you could type:

    C-u 10 a
    M-1 0 a


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