From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joe Fineman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: What's your favourite *under_publicized* editing feature of Emacs? Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 17:23:38 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1296228614 32160 80.91.229.12 (28 Jan 2011 15:30:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 15:30:14 +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 Jan 28 16:30:07 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PiqGw-0006a0-US for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 16:30:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60725 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PiqGw-0006uJ-BR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 10:30:02 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news.buerger.net!newsfeed.datemas.de!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 19 Injection-Info: mx01.eternal-september.org; posting-host="hinwbbzSY007FxHv2ksyJA"; logging-data="19168"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19/9vB+8zEI7n9GBQhViG+A" User-Agent: Gnus/5.101 (Gnus v5.10.10) Emacs/22.3 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:R1Oy84Fni5nyDxXYLybqKQRqTTE= sha1:gQzgfoMGSigLveb7ddeZsuVsQPs= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:184637 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 10:29:06 -0500 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:78803 Archived-At: Ken Goldman writes: > I don't know if it's under-publicized, but I got hooked on emacs > when I discovered keyboard macros. I have start/end/call assigned > to function keys, and I use them whenever I'm doing repetitive > editing. A slight refinement: You can start & end the definition with the same key if you install (defun define-kbd-macro () "Begin or end definition of keyboard macro." (interactive) (if defining-kbd-macro (end-kbd-macro) (start-kbd-macro nil))) -- --- Joe Fineman joe_f@verizon.net ||: If you can make it from one fart to the next, you'll live a :|| ||: long time. :||