Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:57:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Mikko Tyolajarvi <mikko@dynas.se> To: jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: change word or repeat operation in emacs? Message-ID: <200106182057.f5IKvKJ52985@explorer.rsa.com> References: <20010618181631.A42271@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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In local.freebsd.questions you write: >I'm still getting used to emacs, and overall i love it. But here are a few >commands i loved in vi that i haven't yet discovered emacs analogues for. >I will often use 'cw' in vi to change a word (usually a variable name, >constant, etc) and then go to another word i want to change as well. In vi >i can just use '.' to do this. Is there a similar way to 'change-word' then >'repeat-operation' in emacs, besides search-and-replace'? Not exactly, but there are "keyboard macros". C-x-( to begin, do some operations, including searching, C-x-) to end, and C-x-e to execute the same operations again. C-u NNN C-x-e to run the macro NNN times. There's more to it, see C-h-a "macro". $02, /Mikko P.S. This was not really a FreeBSD question, was it? ;-) -- Mikko Työläjärvi_______________________________________mikko@rsasecurity.com RSA Security To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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