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 for beginners (copy and paste) Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:43:30 -0400 Message-ID: References: <8e85c07f-e123-489d-9575-7de4e6063a86@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1367257440 24820 80.91.229.3 (29 Apr 2013 17:44:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 17:44:00 +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 Apr 29 19:43:59 2013 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 1UWs7J-00053E-52 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Apr 2013 19:43:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56406 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UWs7I-0001Lc-Od for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:43:56 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:40610) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UWs77-0001LQ-3o for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:43:46 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UWs75-0001R0-QG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:43:45 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:57161) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UWs75-0001Qu-Jb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:43:43 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UWs73-0004pm-2F for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Apr 2013 19:43:41 +0200 Original-Received: from yktgi01e0-s5.watson.ibm.com ([129.34.20.19]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 29 Apr 2013 19:43:41 +0200 Original-Received: from kgoldman by yktgi01e0-s5.watson.ibm.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 29 Apr 2013 19:43:41 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: yktgi01e0-s5.watson.ibm.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130328 Thunderbird/17.0.5 In-Reply-To: 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:90408 Archived-At: On 4/12/2013 3:40 PM, Barry Margolin wrote: > In article <8e85c07f-e123-489d-9575-7de4e6063a86@googlegroups.com>, > piconese.as@gmail.com wrote: > >> Hi!!! I'm starting to use EMACS and I'have a problem: >> >> I want to copy and paste the values of alpha_eff delta_eff gamma_eff. > > Look into keyboard macros. You record a sequence of keyboard commands, > and then tell Emacs to rerun them. You can tell it how many times to run > it over and over. +1 If you're new to emacs, keyboard macros are the first 'advanced' feature you want to learn. There are usually more elegant ways to do things if you want to write code, but keyboard macros require no coding and are perfect for one-time automation.