Re: Couple of automation questions

["Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>]

Am 27.07.2011 18:52, schrieb fork:
> C K Kashyap<ckkashyap<at>  gmail.com>  writes:
>
>> 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?
>
> What I do is to improvise a macro by C-x-( etc.  Then you can "M-x
> name-last-kbd-macro" to give it an identifier "M-x insert-kbd-macro" put the
> macro in your .emacs file for later.
>
> sed + awk + tr + shell scripting might be a better fit for automatically
> beautifying log files though
>
>
>

yes maybe, if the tasks repeat and are basically simple. Than you could 
use some python or perl too.

no, if it's seldom or tricky.

sed, awk etc. don't have such a thing like edebug for example.

Andreas