From: Gordon Hartley <gordonhartley@...>
Date: 2003-04-26T23:48:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby mode for Emacs...

On Fri, 25 Apr 2003 14:17:22 +0200, Szymon Drejewicz
<drejewic@wsisiz.edu.pl> wrote:

>Stephan K�mper wrote:
>
>> nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote:
>>> Hi,
>> 
>> 8< Lines of questions and advice snipped...
>> 
>>> It's for old Emacsen, just ignore.
>>> 
>> 
>> Thanks a lot. After I've figured out that it may be a good idea to
>> activate the syntax highlighting (resp. to put >>(global-font-lock-mode
>> 1)<< into my .emacs), it's great.
>> Now I'll "just" have to find out all the rest about Emacs. Can't take
>> more than a couple of years I think...
>> 
>> Cheers
>> 
>> Stephan
>
>Yes, I love Emacs too.
>
>To repeat a command use 
>        ESC number
>examples: 
>to move 10 lines down ---> ESC 10 C-n 
>to insert 80 stars ---> ESC 80 *
>
>To save a macro use 
>        C-x ( 
>        commands_sequence 
>        C-x )
>example:
>To delete first and last word in current line --->
>
>        C-x ( C-a M-d C-e M-Backspace C-n C-x )
>
>to run macro use ---> C-x e
>
>Now if you want to delete first and last word in next 100 lines use just
>
>ESC 100 C-x e
>
>:-)

Even better, rather than counting the lines, set mark on the first
line, move point to the last line and use:
M-x apply-macro-to-region-lines (i.e. M-x appl{Tab} using completion)