The single most useful Emacs feature

Re:The single most useful Emacs feature by RockyMcNuts on Tuesday December 06, 2011 @05:15PM (#3321341)

record and play macro (someone had to mention)

  C-x ( 
  <type some magic /> 
  C-x ) 
  C-x e

  M-x 99 C-x e

(play macro 99 times)

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Re:The single most useful Emacs feature by tikhonj on Tuesday December 06, 2011 @05:30PM (#3321403)

Also note that

    C-u 0 C-x e

plays the macro until it rings the bell (e.g. runs out of buffer space or tries to forward-search for a name that doesn't exist. This is great when you don't know how many times it needs to be run.

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Re:The single most useful Emacs feature by vedang on Wednesday December 07, 2011 @02:45AM (#3322950)

^ This. super-useful under appreciated keyboard macro feature.

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Re:The single most useful Emacs feature by jrockway on Thursday December 08, 2011 @01:42AM (#3328041)

M-x 99 C-x e (play macro 99 times)

Actually, that would be M-9 M-9 C-x e or C-u 99 C-x e.

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Re:The single most useful Emacs feature by RockyMcNuts on Friday December 16, 2011 @01:43PM (#3361710)

oops... yes, what you said. ie Esc 9 9 C-x e

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