Re: Create a 1,000,000 byte file with VIM.

On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Karol Samborski <edv.karol@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Why not just:
> ia<esc> <- insert 'a'
> yl <- copy one character
> 1000000p <- paste it 1000000 times
>

Because that would give me a 1000001 byte file!

Seriously, though, thanks. This is the correct way! Interestingly,
though there is no trailing whitespace, I had to have only 999999
characters to get a 1000000 file, in other words there is an extra
byte in there somewhere. Perhaps a BOM due to the UTF-8 file system?

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