From: Joe Bloggs <who@cares.invalid>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: parametrized function definition
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:23:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ej5w1ahb.fsf@DEBLAP1.BeNet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.14451.1215618411.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
adamsonj@email.unc.edu (Joel J. Adamson) writes:
> Joe Bloggs <who@cares.invalid> writes:
>
>> Hi, I am trying to write a function that allows me to quickly bind a key combination
>> to insert arbitrary text:
>
> You mean like a keyboard macro? C-x ( t e x t t h a t y o u w a n t t o
> i n s e r t C-x ), then C-x e to insert the text.
>
> You can also create macros of arbitrary keyboard movements, not just
> text insertion. Right now I'm defining a keyboard macro to insert this
> text.
>
> C-x e
> =>
> Right now I'm defining a keyboard macro to insert this text.
>
> Joel
> --
> Joel J. Adamson
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The problem with macros is that if I have several of them then several keys presses
are required to access each one. I prefer to have simple two-finger key combinations.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-14 20:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-08 17:07 parametrized function definition Joe Bloggs
2008-07-09 7:06 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-07-09 8:12 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2008-07-09 8:19 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
[not found] ` <mailman.14435.1215591337.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-07-09 14:44 ` Joe Bloggs
2008-07-09 10:40 ` Xah
2008-07-09 12:26 ` Joel J. Adamson
2008-07-09 12:46 ` weber
2008-07-14 20:32 ` Joe Bloggs
[not found] ` <mailman.14451.1215618411.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-07-14 20:23 ` Joe Bloggs [this message]
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