From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: how to %g/notice/d Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 12:33:32 -0600 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <40F81F7C.40007@yahoo.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1090003069 21376 80.91.224.253 (16 Jul 2004 18:37:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 18:37:49 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 16 20:37:37 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BlXaT-0000BA-00 for ; Fri, 16 Jul 2004 20:37:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BlXd0-0003mT-Um for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Jul 2004 14:40:14 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsmi-us.news.garr.it!newsmi-eu.news.garr.it!NewsITBone-GARR!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 30 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de WPu+aRuVSHNMrjDM1dlb6QWqVi058U8zCwG9MbftW1SBYSiyU= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:124341 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:19677 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:19677 nick wrote: > o you can write a macro (as kgold suggested) that remembers the > keystrokes you type while you are doing *one* deletion, go to the top > of the buffer and then invoke the macro N times (with a prefix > argument of course), where N is some number greater or equal to the > number of occurrences of the word ``notice'' in your file. Don't guess what N is, just use 0. (I've always thought 0 was a poor choice for `C-x e's special prefix arg. 0 should mean execute 0 times; a negative number should mean execute until error.) ... > In my case, I have bound the mark-whole-buffer function to a function > key, since I use it very often, so the resulting operation is shorter. > In my .emacs, I have > > (define-key global-map [f9] 'mark-whole-buffer) mark-whole-buffer is bound by default to `C-x h'. ... > C-u M-| sed 'notice/d' RET That should be: C-u M-| sed '/notice/d' RET -- Kevin Rodgers