vi question

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Feb 19, 2010, gahn wrote:
>Hi, all:
>

>How could I use vi to repeat a word, say, 100 times in the same line, of
>course with a space in between?

Use a repeat count.  The following is generated by this:

20a thisword<ESC>

 thisword thisword thisword thisword thisword thisword thisword thisword thisword thisword thisword thisword thisword thisword thisword thisword thisword thisword thisword thisword

I use this frequently to generate sequences of characters when laying out
forms.

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