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From: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
To: "C. K. Kashyap" <ckkashyap@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Couple of automation questions
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 11:28:54 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pqkwyvnd.fsf@mithlond.arda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGdT1go1vfxR8VpZv6qaRh_d3gFOvxaWDh+kAaZ5nhrTGCx5Vw@mail.gmail.com> (C. K. Kashyap's message of "Wed, 27 Jul 2011 13:41:29 +0530")

* 2011-07-27T13:41:29+05:30 * C. K. Kashyap wrote:

> Thanks Teemu ... I am aware of elisp. What I am looking for are
> general tips on how one goes about actually writing them in real time
> ( while editing some text) ... for example, if I do a kill and want to
> yank 10 times, What I'd do is M-:(dotimes (i 10) (yank))
>
> but is that the recommended way or would writing the script in the
> main buffer and executing it with C-x-e better ... or is there an even
> better way?

There are options. I'd say that do what you feel is comfortable to you.
I'll just add another option: write and define an interactive function
in the *scratch* buffer and then execute it (M-x ...) in the target
buffer.



  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-27  8:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-27  5:31 Couple of automation questions C K Kashyap
2011-07-27  7:16 ` Andreas Röhler
2011-07-27  7:27 ` Teemu Likonen
2011-07-27  8:11   ` C K Kashyap
2011-07-27  8:28     ` Teemu Likonen [this message]
2011-07-27 14:26     ` Memnon Anon
2011-07-27 16:52     ` fork
2011-07-27 17:06       ` Teemu Likonen
2011-07-27 17:23         ` fork
2011-07-27 17:28       ` Andreas Röhler
2011-07-28  2:40         ` C K Kashyap
2011-07-28  6:05           ` Teemu Likonen
2011-07-28  6:56           ` Andreas Röhler

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