From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to insert a string every 2 characters Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 22:09:39 +0200 Message-ID: <874mjola7w.fsf@nl106-137-147.student.uu.se> References: <877fok7mar.fsf@members.fsf.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1440447343 25101 80.91.229.3 (24 Aug 2015 20:15:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 20:15:43 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 24 22:15:35 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZTy9V-0000iR-DC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Aug 2015 22:15:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56555 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZTy9U-0004kC-Hm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Aug 2015 16:15:32 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60062) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZTy9D-0004iM-Ic for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Aug 2015 16:15:16 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZTy99-0006mI-H4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Aug 2015 16:15:15 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:48740) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZTy99-0006m7-BO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Aug 2015 16:15:11 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZTy92-0000LP-IO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Aug 2015 22:15:04 +0200 Original-Received: from nl106-137-190.student.uu.se ([130.243.137.190]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 24 Aug 2015 22:15:04 +0200 Original-Received: from embe8573 by nl106-137-190.student.uu.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 24 Aug 2015 22:15:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: nl106-137-190.student.uu.se Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:u8h/pe1O1QWDH0UrOdPoylIVnys= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:106814 Archived-At: Nicolas Richard writes: > You could also use a keyboard macro: C-f C-f > SPC then hit repeatidly (or use C-u 123 > for some value of 123) until satisfied. > > kbd macros tend to be an easy way to automate > complex tasks when you don't have time and don't > need to be too smart. They sure are! Act like you are stressed and not too smart, and that is exactly what you will become. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573