From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ken Goldman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: What's your favourite *under_publicized* editing feature of Emacs? Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 09:12:25 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1296137604 6758 80.91.229.12 (27 Jan 2011 14:13:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 14:13:24 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 27 15:13:20 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PiSb6-0001Ju-2O for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 15:13:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33930 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PiSb5-0003bd-C8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 09:13:15 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=50907 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PiSai-0003bR-Fb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 09:12:53 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PiSah-0001jw-G9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 09:12:52 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:41937) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PiSah-0001jY-AV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 09:12:51 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PiSaV-0000tG-4P for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 15:12:39 +0100 Original-Received: from 75-17-109-153.lightspeed.nrwlct.sbcglobal.net ([75.17.109.153]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 15:12:39 +0100 Original-Received: from kgold by 75-17-109-153.lightspeed.nrwlct.sbcglobal.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 15:12:39 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 75-17-109-153.lightspeed.nrwlct.sbcglobal.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101208 Red Hat/3.1.7-3.el6_0 Thunderbird/3.1.7 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:78784 Archived-At: I don't know if it's under-publicized, but I got hooked on emacs when I discovered keyboard macros. I have start/end/call assigned to function keys, and I use them whenever I'm doing repetitive editing. I also like the integrated grep and next-error, which I also assign to function keys. ... and the combination of grep, next-error and keyboard macros really automates global changes. On 01/27/2011 03:33 AM, Le Wang wrote: > Maybe you can think about your muscle memorized actions and pick > out the single most useful function (whether a part of Emacs or in an > addon package) that you don't think is well publicized and share it with us? >