From: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
To: "C. K. Kashyap" <ckkashyap@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Couple of automation questions
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:27:43 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tya8yyhc.fsf@mithlond.arda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGdT1gqqzBp=_cVyCdMV27m=ijxXHY7itPerPfv9Mjq9rORScQ@mail.gmail.com> (C. K. Kashyap's message of "Wed, 27 Jul 2011 11:01:18 +0530")
* 2011-07-27T11:01:18+05:30 * C. K. Kashyap wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a situation where I need to "beautify" a log file quite often. I need
> to do the same set of steps.
> What is the recommended best practices for the following approaches -
> 1. Keyboard Macro
> What is the way to save the macro to disk? Do we open a new buffer (or a
> buffer that contains all keyboard macros) and then insert it there and save
> it?
See the info node
C-h i g (emacs) Save Keyboard Macro RET
> 2. Scripting
> Whats the recommended way to get started with scripting? Do I open up a
> buffer and start typing? I dont seem to get function name completion in a
> new buffer.
"Scripting" in Emacs is actually programming in Emacs Lisp. To get
started with Emacs Lisp I suggest reading "An Introduction to
Programming in Emacs Lisp" and of course the Emacs Lisp reference
manual.
C-h i g (eintr) Top RET
C-h i g (elisp) Top RET
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-27 7:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-27 5:31 Couple of automation questions C K Kashyap
2011-07-27 7:16 ` Andreas Röhler
2011-07-27 7:27 ` Teemu Likonen [this message]
2011-07-27 8:11 ` C K Kashyap
2011-07-27 8:28 ` Teemu Likonen
2011-07-27 14:26 ` Memnon Anon
2011-07-27 16:52 ` fork
2011-07-27 17:06 ` Teemu Likonen
2011-07-27 17:23 ` fork
2011-07-27 17:28 ` Andreas Röhler
2011-07-28 2:40 ` C K Kashyap
2011-07-28 6:05 ` Teemu Likonen
2011-07-28 6:56 ` Andreas Röhler
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