From: "Colin S. Miller" <no-spam-thank-you@csmiller.demon.co.uk>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Apply a saved macro to region
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:03:40 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47a22af8$0$90264$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.6814.1201797949.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Tom Tromey wrote:
>>>>>> "Ankur" == Ankur Jain <ankurj@gmail.com> writes:
>
> Ankur> I saved a macro which appends a comma(,) at the end of a
> Ankur> line. I want to apply this saved macro to a region now. I mean,
> Ankur> I select a region in emacs and do "append_comma" macro command
> Ankur> to apply this to the whole region.
>
> What I would usually do is make a keyboard macro that operates on the
> current line and then moves to the next line. That way if I run it
> multiple times it will do the right thing.
>
> Then to apply it to a region, I would 'C-x n n' (narrow-to-region),
> move to the start, and run it enough times. You can do this using C-u
> a lot. Finally, 'C-x n w' to widen to the whole buffer again.
Tom, Ankur,
C-u 0 C-x e
repeats the last macro until the bell rings. (C-u nnn C-x erepeats the macro 'nnn' times).
As previous commentators have said, you are better of with regexps (they are lot faster).
Disabling font-lock-mode (or even putting the buffer into fundamental-mode) will speed up macros.
HTH,
Colin S. Miller
>
> Tom
>
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-31 20:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-31 15:18 Apply a saved macro to region Ankur Jain
2008-01-31 15:22 ` Michael Hoffman
2008-01-31 15:46 ` Ankur Jain
2008-01-31 15:50 ` Andreas Röhler
2008-01-31 16:06 ` Tom Tromey
[not found] ` <mailman.6814.1201797949.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-01-31 20:03 ` Colin S. Miller [this message]
2008-02-01 1:10 ` Nikos Apostolakis
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