From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ken Goldman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs equivalent of the ":g" command in vi Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2011 20:27:53 -0400 Message-ID: References: <4E29DD40.80909@arlsoft.com> <4E29DF70.7080008@easy-emacs.de> <4E29E2DC.2060503@arlsoft.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1313368100 375 80.91.229.12 (15 Aug 2011 00:28:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 00:28:20 +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 15 02:28:16 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qsl2O-0005uP-9n for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 02:28:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39442 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qsl2N-0003ud-NG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Aug 2011 20:28:15 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:49949) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qsl2I-0003uW-QH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Aug 2011 20:28:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qsl2H-0007CV-VH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Aug 2011 20:28:10 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:45926) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qsl2H-0007CR-Oy for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Aug 2011 20:28:09 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qsl2G-0005r8-Tl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 02:28:08 +0200 Original-Received: from 75-17-109-153.lightspeed.nrwlct.sbcglobal.net ([75.17.109.153]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 02:28:08 +0200 Original-Received: from kgold by 75-17-109-153.lightspeed.nrwlct.sbcglobal.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 02:28:08 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 11 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 75-17-109-153.lightspeed.nrwlct.sbcglobal.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110624 Thunderbird/5.0 In-Reply-To: <4E29E2DC.2060503@arlsoft.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 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:81947 Archived-At: On 7/22/2011 4:51 PM, MBR wrote: > Personally, I don't find I'm "fighting" with macros. You can get an > astounding amount done with macros without having to do the mental > context switch to coding mode. I agree with this. I use keyboard macros all the time for complicated editing functions that I only have to do once. Define it, then M-x big number. True, they can be slow, but they're still faster than trying to code up the 'right way' to do it.