From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs Book Vs Emacs Manuals Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2015 00:42:31 +0200 Message-ID: <87lhf6ks6g.fsf@nl106-137-147.student.uu.se> References: <554C9356.5000204@gmail.com> <20150508125314086261755@bob.proulx.com> <87bnhuc177.fsf@mbork.pl> <55561B9E.4070101@arlsoft.com> <87y4kpfvct.fsf@debian.uxu> <87mvzmv7ef.fsf@nl106-137-147.student.uu.se> <871tgycjae.fsf@mbork.pl> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1435358662 31327 80.91.229.3 (26 Jun 2015 22:44:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2015 22:44:22 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 27 00:44:13 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Z8cLz-00030x-S6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 27 Jun 2015 00:44:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33947 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z8cLz-0007FZ-0k for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Jun 2015 18:44:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51404) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z8cLn-0007EV-JJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jun 2015 18:44:00 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z8cLk-0000EI-7J for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jun 2015 18:43:59 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:54345) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z8cLk-0000E7-0B for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jun 2015 18:43:56 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Z8cLh-0002mO-OY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Jun 2015 00:43:53 +0200 Original-Received: from nl106-137-246.student.uu.se ([130.243.137.246]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 27 Jun 2015 00:43:53 +0200 Original-Received: from embe8573 by nl106-137-246.student.uu.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 27 Jun 2015 00:43:53 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 42 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: nl106-137-246.student.uu.se Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Y3diXzzu43k/RsdO4lLQF+JowWw= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:105207 Archived-At: Marcin Borkowski writes: >> What do you typically produce with your macros? >> If you give me a good example where the macro is >> the life saver, I can think how I would do the >> same thing. > > What about this: you have a LaTeX table with 4 > columns, and you want to delete the second one. > While you /can/ do it with LaTeX hackery > (essentially making one of the columns invisible), > you want to deal with it at the level of the source > file. You put the point at the beginning of the > first row and do something along these lines: > > F3 C-s & RET C-SPC C-s C-s RET C-w C-a C-n F4 > > and then press F4 once for each row (or even C-8 F4 > if you know you have 8 more rows to go). > > I cannot see how Elisp could be faster for this, > even if you /think/ in Elisp /and/ can touch-type. Oh, yeah? \begin{longtable} 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 \\\\ a & b & c & d \\\\ A & B & C & D \end{longtable} %% (replace-regexp "^\\(.*&.*&\\).*&\\(.*\\)" "\\1\\2") \begin{longtable} 1 & 2 & 4 \\\\ a & b & d \\\\ A & B & D \end{longtable} -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573