Re: Couple of automation questions

[Andreas Röhler]

Am 27.07.2011 07:31, schrieb C K Kashyap:
> Hi,
> I have a situation where I need to "beautify" a log file quite often. I need
> to do the same set of steps.
> What is the recommended best practices for the following approaches -
> 1. Keyboard Macro
> What is the way to save the macro to disk?

21.5 Naming and Saving Keyboard Macros
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Do we open a new buffer (or a
> buffer that contains all keyboard macros) and then insert it there and save
> it?
>
> 2. Scripting
> Whats the recommended way to get started with scripting? Do I open up a
> buffer and start typing? I dont seem to get function name completion in a
> new buffer.

Don't care for things like that at the beginning.

See doku of

M-x dabbrev-expand

it will do all you need at this point and context.

Andreas

> Regards,
> Kashyap