From: Steven Arntson <steven@stevenarntson.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: using "variables" (correct term?)
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2015 11:01:29 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a90s18ty.fsf@stevenarntson.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87egq4431y.fsf@hochschule-trier.de
Andreas Politz <politza@hochschule-trier.de> writes:
> Steven Arntson <steven@stevenarntson.com> writes:
>
>> I'm trying to send out some form letters to various people, and am
>> looking for a way to define something at the top, like:
>>
>> #+RECIPIENT: Jane Doe
>>
>> which would automatically replace itself in the letter when referenced
>
> I think this would rather be called a macro, since a variable denotes a
> place in memory.
>
> -ap
Searching on "emacs macros" leads me to information on the kind
of macro you "record" with `C-x (' in order to reproduce a series of
keystrokes.
For the moment, I'm looking into Auctex as perhaps a way of leveraging
Latex for this. I've always avoided Latex because of its learning
curve, but perhaps this will be the thing that finally propels me!
-steven
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-05 19:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-05 18:34 using "variables" (correct term?) Steven Arntson
2015-02-05 18:38 ` Andreas Politz
2015-02-05 19:01 ` Steven Arntson [this message]
2015-02-05 21:31 ` Nicolas Richard
2015-02-06 2:10 ` Steven Arntson
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2015-02-05 20:07 ` Barry Margolin
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