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: Emacs Book Vs Emacs Manuals Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2015 17:03:36 +0200 Message-ID: <87mvzmv7ef.fsf@nl106-137-147.student.uu.se> References: <554C9356.5000204@gmail.com> <20150508125314086261755@bob.proulx.com> <87bnhuc177.fsf@mbork.pl> <55561B9E.4070101@arlsoft.com> <87y4kpfvct.fsf@debian.uxu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1435332721 26735 80.91.229.3 (26 Jun 2015 15:32:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2015 15:32:01 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 26 17:31:52 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 1Z8Vba-0000tW-Qn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Jun 2015 17:31:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60805 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z8Vba-0007qE-9v for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Jun 2015 11:31:50 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34992) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z8VBn-00056v-VN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jun 2015 11:05:15 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z8VBj-0001Rz-9R for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jun 2015 11:05:11 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:50161) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z8VBj-0001Qy-3h for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jun 2015 11:05:07 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Z8VBh-0001Vl-6e for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jun 2015 17:05:05 +0200 Original-Received: from nl106-137-98.student.uu.se ([130.243.137.98]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 26 Jun 2015 17:05:05 +0200 Original-Received: from embe8573 by nl106-137-98.student.uu.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 26 Jun 2015 17:05:05 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: nl106-137-98.student.uu.se Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:gNqchFOnL2Tnlm8iUoSb+H9TK1Y= 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:105200 Archived-At: Ken Goldman writes: > As someone who uses keyboard macros constantly ... > > I think they're certainly faster to write than lisp, > since there's no debug time. > > For some specialized task I'll probably never use > again, I can probably write the macro with less > keystrokes than calling up .emacs and typing in > the elisp. > > For the rare times I think I'll need the command > again, I assign it to a key chord or save it. What do you typically produce with your macros? If you give me a good example where the macro is the life saver, I can think how I would do the same thing. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573