From: "Colin S. Miller" <no-spam-thank-you@csmiller.demon.co.uk>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: keyboard macro question
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:50:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ac61330$0$288$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <578073a3-391f-481d-9d05-303bfef8e01c@x37g2000yqj.googlegroups.com>
Benjamin wrote:
> I use keyboard macros fairly frequently, but I often run into a
> situation where I would like to increment a number in the macro, e.g.,
> if I start with:
>
> tmp tmp tmp tmp
>
> and I want to end with:
> tmp1
> tmp2
> tmp3
> tmp4
>
Benjamin,
These functions are useful for this situation
C-u 1 C-x r n a (number-to-register a)
C-x r i a (insert-register a)
C-x r + a (increment-register a)
HTH,
Colin S. Miller
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-02 14:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-02 14:05 keyboard macro question Benjamin
2009-10-02 14:15 ` Joost Kremers
2009-10-02 14:34 ` David Kastrup
2009-10-02 14:54 ` jbenjam
2009-10-02 14:50 ` Colin S. Miller [this message]
2009-10-02 18:12 ` Harry Putnam
2009-10-02 20:15 ` Tassilo Horn
2009-10-03 2:04 ` Eric
[not found] ` <d9407676-bb83-46a4-9804-0450cc190b59@v37g2000prg.googlegroups.com>
2009-10-18 1:46 ` David Combs
2009-10-18 17:40 ` Xah Lee
2009-11-12 3:12 ` David Combs
2009-11-13 18:36 ` Lars Enderin
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