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From: "Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Couple of automation questions
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 09:16:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E2FBB4A.3060909@easy-emacs.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGdT1gqqzBp=_cVyCdMV27m=ijxXHY7itPerPfv9Mjq9rORScQ@mail.gmail.com>

Am 27.07.2011 07:31, schrieb C K Kashyap:
> Hi,
> I have a situation where I need to "beautify" a log file quite often. I need
> to do the same set of steps.
> What is the recommended best practices for the following approaches -
> 1. Keyboard Macro
> What is the way to save the macro to disk?

21.5 Naming and Saving Keyboard Macros
======================================

Do we open a new buffer (or a
> buffer that contains all keyboard macros) and then insert it there and save
> it?
>
> 2. Scripting
> Whats the recommended way to get started with scripting? Do I open up a
> buffer and start typing? I dont seem to get function name completion in a
> new buffer.

Don't care for things like that at the beginning.

See doku of

M-x dabbrev-expand

it will do all you need at this point and context.

Andreas

>
> Regards,
> Kashyap
>




  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-27  7:16 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 [this message]
2011-07-27  7:27 ` Teemu Likonen
2011-07-27  8:11   ` C K Kashyap
2011-07-27  8:28     ` Teemu Likonen
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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