Re: emacs for beginners (copy and paste)

[Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>]

In article <8e85c07f-e123-489d-9575-7de4e6063a86@googlegroups.com>,
 piconese.as@gmail.com wrote:

> Hi!!! I'm starting to use EMACS and I'have a problem:
> 
> I want to copy and paste the values of alpha_eff delta_eff gamma_eff.
> 
> The problem is that I want to do this for 75 movements.
> 
> So I want to select and to copy only the values of alpha_eff delta_eff 
> gamma_eff for each movement and to paste them in a new file.

Look into keyboard macros. You record a sequence of keyboard commands, 
and then tell Emacs to rerun them. You can tell it how many times to run 
it over and over.

In your case, you can use a regexp search to search for 
\(alpha\|delta\|gamma\)_eff:, set a mark, move over the next word, copy 
it with M-w, switch to the buffer containing the file you're copying to, 
paste with C-y, and switch back to the original buffer.

> 
> Can you help me??
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> --------------- MOUVEMENT M1 -------------
> alpha_ref: 11 alpha_eff: 11 
> delta_ref: 04 delta_eff: 04
> gamma_ref: 00 gamma_eff: 00 
> 
> --------------- MOUVEMENT M2 -------------
> alpha_ref: 15 alpha_eff: 15 
> delta_ref: 00 delta_eff: 00
> gamma_ref: 01 gamma_eff: 01 
>                .
>                .
>                .
>                .  
> --------------- MOUVEMENT M75 -------------
> alpha_ref: 116 alpha_eff: 123 
> delta_ref: 04 delta_eff: 04
> gamma_ref: 00 gamma_eff: 00

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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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