{"id":7397,"date":"2018-08-08T12:15:24","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T16:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=7397"},"modified":"2018-08-08T12:15:24","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T16:15:24","slug":"keyboard-macros-a-reason-to-use-emacs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=7397","title":{"rendered":"Keyboard Macros: A Reason to Use Emacs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Bill over at <a href=\"http:\/\/atmakers.org\/\">ATMakers<\/a> has a short video on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?time_continue=1&amp;v=wFCO__0prCM\">Why I Use Emacs<\/a>. He&rsquo;s a long term user and the reasons are many, he says, but the video is just one example showing how Emacs can make repetitive tasks easier. <\/p>\n<p> The problem is that he has a list of two columns that he wants to mark up with HTML. The video shows how to do this using keyboard macros. It&rsquo;s a natural solution and the video shows how easy it is. To be sure, it&rsquo;s an elementary application of keyboard macros so the video is most suited for someone asking &ldquo;Why do you use Emacs?&rdquo; Still, even more experienced folks may enjoy it. <\/p>\n<p> The video is only 6 minutes and 15 seconds so it should be easy to find time to view it if you&rsquo;re interested. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill over at ATMakers has a short video on Why I Use Emacs. He&rsquo;s a long term user and the reasons are many, he says, but the video is just one example showing how Emacs can make repetitive tasks easier. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=7397\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-7397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-emacs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7398,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7397\/revisions\/7398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}