From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steven Arntson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: using "variables" (correct term?) Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2015 11:01:29 -0800 Message-ID: <87a90s18ty.fsf@stevenarntson.com> References: <87egq41a29.fsf@stevenarntson.com> <87egq4431y.fsf@hochschule-trier.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1423163402 9409 80.91.229.3 (5 Feb 2015 19:10:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2015 19:10:02 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 05 20:10:01 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 1YJRoN-0001nQ-H6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Feb 2015 20:09:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44786 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YJRoM-0000pd-SC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Feb 2015 14:09:58 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49698) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YJRgV-00042x-Ua for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Feb 2015 14:01:52 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YJRgS-0003w9-7p for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Feb 2015 14:01:51 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:42590) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YJRgS-0003vf-23 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Feb 2015 14:01:48 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YJRgQ-0003OF-LH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Feb 2015 20:01:46 +0100 Original-Received: from 104.244.220.59 ([104.244.220.59]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 05 Feb 2015 20:01:46 +0100 Original-Received: from steven by 104.244.220.59 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 05 Feb 2015 20:01:46 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 104.244.220.59 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:0wiLUoqLGujZCfD9GjkLxByGDSA= 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:102511 Archived-At: Andreas Politz writes: > Steven Arntson 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