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# Repeating Characters
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It's not common to need to type 39 space characters in a row, but when the
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moment arises, you don't want to be caught hitting the space bar 39 times.
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Vim makes it easy. From normal mode, type the number, then `i`, and then the
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character to be repeated followed by an escape.
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For instance, for 39 spaces, hit:
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```
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39i <esc>
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```
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or for 80 dashes, hit:
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```
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80i-<esc>
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```
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