From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas =?iso-8859-1?q?R=F6hler?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Beginning Hobbyist Programmer Question Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 10:02:07 +0100 Message-ID: <200801181002.08486.andreas.roehler@online.de> References: <44129c70-807a-4ef0-bc4f-e299caf5e334@k39g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1200647461 1316 80.91.229.12 (18 Jan 2008 09:11:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:11:01 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 18 10:11:19 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JFnFt-0008Oy-Sw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 10:11:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JFnFU-0007et-Bn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 04:10:52 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JFn7w-00050k-2Q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 04:03:04 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JFn7t-0004zb-4q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 04:03:02 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JFn7s-0004zN-N0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 04:03:00 -0500 Original-Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.177]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JFn7s-0006vT-EH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 04:03:00 -0500 Original-Received: from noname (p54BE81EA.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [84.190.129.234]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu2) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0MKwtQ-1JFn7q09NA-000616; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 10:02:58 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 In-Reply-To: <44129c70-807a-4ef0-bc4f-e299caf5e334@k39g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> Content-Disposition: inline X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18lIodu1F1M+L1scoBdbSZkfypoMzkFCSHRUoA +PV0EI2VIqdi0DqnohKzfMavqkb/z7AQL8IB5C4lHRr5WU171u XuY1bR2l01hka2lfuxOIQ== X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:50793 Archived-At: Am Donnerstag, 17. Januar 2008 23:04 schrieb signups17@gmail.com: > I'm > starting with Python and I've built a few scripts that have increased > my productivity tremendously at work, doing a lot of data crunching, > etc. Beside of regexp search and replace, font-highlighting--where all valid editors are able to--I see Emacs strength in integration to another processes whose output might be edited or handled afterwards. =46or example you may get the output of the shell into some buffer and editing it then. You may run shell-commands directly on the buffers code. Or browse the net with Emacs-w3m and have the output ready for further editing, if not calling functions on them. With some Emacs-Lisp knowledge the tasks turn a lot easier again. Because regexps tend to be complicated, quite often it's faster to write a function addressing the special case than relying at interactive regexp search and replace alone. With Emacs you may automatize this function-writing again, using skeletons, templates etc. Not to forget key-board macros: Even if operating with interactive regexp-search and replace sometimes it's useful to record your steps for further repeats. Andreas R=F6hler