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From: "Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>
To: MBR <mbr@arlsoft.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs equivalent of the ":g" command in vi
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 09:10:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E2A73E0.7090605@easy-emacs.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E29E2DC.2060503@arlsoft.com>

Am 22.07.2011 22:51, schrieb MBR:
> Personally, I don't find I'm "fighting" with macros. You can get an
> astounding amount done with macros without having to do the mental
> context switch to coding mode. And if I'm already in coding mode, I find
> putting the real application I was working on (in Java or C or PHP or
> JavaScript or whatever) on short-term hold and switching context to
> writing Elisp code for editing the application code, leaves me
> struggling to remember what I was trying to accomplish with my changes
> to the application code when I finally finish writing the Elisp code and
> need to pop that context off my mental stack and return to thinking
> about the application code.
>
> But other people's mental processes may well be different. To each his
> own. Or, as they say, YMMV.
>
> Mark

Sure. If you like, it might be of interest for others too comparing a 
real example.

If you may provide a piece of code and a kbd-macro dealing with it, 
let's see how a function might come up with.

BTW as for functions you will have templates. So quite often creating a 
new function isn't much more finally than specifying a regexp.


Andreas



  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-23  7:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-22  8:42 Emacs equivalent of the ":g" command in vi C K Kashyap
2011-07-22  9:27 ` Peter Dyballa
2011-07-22  9:48   ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-07-22 10:02     ` C K Kashyap
2011-07-22 10:12       ` Peter Dyballa
2011-07-22 10:41         ` C K Kashyap
2011-07-22 10:34       ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2011-07-22 10:44         ` C K Kashyap
2011-07-22 10:45       ` Deniz Dogan
2011-07-22 10:46         ` Deniz Dogan
2011-07-22 19:03       ` Eric Abrahamsen
2011-07-22 20:27 ` MBR
2011-07-22 20:37   ` Andreas Röhler
2011-07-22 20:51     ` MBR
2011-07-23  7:10       ` Andreas Röhler [this message]
2011-08-15  0:27       ` Ken Goldman
2011-07-23  3:02   ` C K Kashyap
2011-07-23  8:44     ` suvayu ali

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