
Feature requests and defect reports made in the Reviews section are unlikely to be noticed. Transposition of characters, words, lines, paragraphs and s-expressionsĪn optional feature provides additional bindings for:Ī complete list of supported commands and brief documentation can be found here.The reason theyre great is the level of support for reproducible action (ie.e. Frame handling (C-x 5 2, C-x 5 1, C-x 5 0, C-x 5 o) Yes, though people dont usually say 'Emacs is so great because of macros,' more like 'Lisp is so great because of macros.' I would say 99.9 percent of people who use Emacs have not, and will never, write a Lisp macro.
EMACS MACROS WINDOWS
Split editor windows (C-x 2, C-x 3, C-x, C-x 4.
Balanced expression (s-expression) commands. Emacs style search and query/replace with regular expressions. Beginning with Version 22, GNU Emacs contains the kmacro package, which provides support for dealing with keyboard macros that have been defined and named during the current Emacs session. Emacs style point/mark selection with both global and buffer-local mark rings The purpose of keyboard macros in an editor is to expedite the entering of key sequences that occur frequently and are lengthy or inconvenient to type. C-x b, C-x 4 b, C-x 5 b with completion, search and buffer list. The macro system is great, but it is limited in power, and it sounds like you are trying to do something more powerful than it can handle (easily). Keyboard Macros (including name, bind, save, load and auto-loading 1 There is probably a way to do it by modifying or studying the behavior of isearch, but your best bet is to write the inner loop in Lisp and run the outer loop as a macro (or write it in Lisp as well). Emacs+ - Eclipse Extensions for Emacs Expatriates - provides an enhanced Emacs-like experience in the Eclipse text editors.