Re: Cloning from sites with 404 overridden

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Mar 24, 2006, 17:53 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0603240945470.26286@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <slrne28b3a.cp6.mdw@metalzone.distorted.org.uk>

On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Mark Wooding wrote:

> 
> (Aside: `C-u 38 0' doesn't work because Emacs hears `C-u 380' and waits
> for a key.  `M-: (insert-char ?0 38) RET' does the right thing, but is
> ugly.  Any better suggestions?)

I don't do GNU emacs, but the way to do it in some other editors that do repeats somewhat similarly is to do the action that starts with a number as a macro, and do that macro 37 more times.

On uemacs: ^X '(' '0' ^X ')' ESC '3' '7' ^X 'E'

(Of course, the easier way is to just do '0' LEFT ^K to put the 0 in the buffer, and than ESC '3' '8' ^Y to yank it 38 times, but the macro trick is generic, even if it's a few more keystrokes).

		Linus "teaching people the one true editor" Torvalds