Re: M-x Sort-Columns in scientific format

[Pascal Bourguignon]

Kenneth Jacker <khj@be.cs.appstate.edu> writes:

>   hugows> You can give an argument to most editing commands; try for example:
>   hugows>
>   hugows> C-u 80 C-u =
>
> I don't think you need that second "C-u".  This works fine for me:
>
>           C-u 80 =

C-u nn C-u is the general case when you want to insert digits:

C-u 5 C-u 3       --> 33333

In X: C-5 C-u 3   --> 33333


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