From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andreas_R=F6hler?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Couple of automation questions Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 09:16:26 +0200 Message-ID: <4E2FBB4A.3060909@easy-emacs.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1311751001 28306 80.91.229.12 (27 Jul 2011 07:16:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 07:16:41 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 27 09:16:38 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QlyM9-0006VD-Ve for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 09:16:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58647 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QlyM6-0007sl-2j for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 03:16:34 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:36062) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QlyM1-0007sg-OW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 03:16:30 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QlyM0-0007fT-Rg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 03:16:29 -0400 Original-Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.17.10]:56364) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QlyM0-0007fI-CB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 03:16:28 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.178.27] (brln-4dbc767f.pool.mediaWays.net [77.188.118.127]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mreu3) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0M1MLN-1RaDSN2PpR-00tU3M; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 09:16:26 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110616 SUSE/3.1.11 Thunderbird/3.1.11 In-Reply-To: X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:0HqQ2v6s3+NdVFaA8oNff6ODzjLUoITO8IEf/Tkum9J 4Eoga781tc8IKMF/bhADG7m+chKC8K2/nuRkmeKsd2D+igI3z4 XzRQFFWt4x0c4oKebkK2S2SUedb9rwnJ8I+aHotS7xNsxzwCc+ blL1WGpaoxrvN7YfguICcLi+Ea0GO1OtUSrl5nklZ+rsqxMZtN mkeEvDkhjND5ysCpKGXFfIK59Dl+Pp9GT80MR68T5g= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 212.227.17.10 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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 Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:81803 Archived-At: Am 27.07.2011 07:31, schrieb C K Kashyap: > Hi, > I have a situation where I need to "beautify" a log file quite often. I need > to do the same set of steps. > What is the recommended best practices for the following approaches - > 1. Keyboard Macro > What is the way to save the macro to disk? 21.5 Naming and Saving Keyboard Macros ====================================== Do we open a new buffer (or a > buffer that contains all keyboard macros) and then insert it there and save > it? > > 2. Scripting > Whats the recommended way to get started with scripting? Do I open up a > buffer and start typing? I dont seem to get function name completion in a > new buffer. Don't care for things like that at the beginning. See doku of M-x dabbrev-expand it will do all you need at this point and context. Andreas > > Regards, > Kashyap >