Re: Question about writing a macro in XEMACS

Try something like this (I recorded it from emacs, but should be same).

Command: last-kbd-macro
Key: none

Macro:

C-s               ;; isearch-forward
abc               ;; self-insert-command * 3
RET               ;; newline
3*DEL             ;; c-electric-backspace
cde               ;; self-insert-command * 3
C-x r i                 ;; insert-register
q                 ;; self-insert-command
C-x r +                 ;; increment-register
q                 ;; self-insert-command


I also set F4 to last keyboard macro (I exec macros way too often for the
default c-x,e to be a good choice).
In the example above, I used "register q" as the number register.

You have to init register q, such as to zero. You can use: `C-x r n q'.

abc abc abc
changes to
cde1 cde2 cde3




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Dear all,

I do not know if I'm writing this question to the correct address or not?
If not please let me know to where I have to write next time, if I have
questions belonging to XEMACS, because I'm new in this group.

And now my question:
I use often the macro feature in XEMACS. If I want to do some actions wit=
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some replacements (e.g. "abc" with "cde") in a text file, I do it once an=
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save it in a macro and rerun it by using the "excecute-last-kbd-macro" li=
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by line through the whole file.
If the replacements are always the same, my macro works fine. But if I
want to replace the sting "abc" with "cde1", "cde2", "cde3" ..., which
means
that each time the replacement is increased by a certain value, in this
case
one, how can I write my macro to achieve this replacement by using the
command
"excecute-last-kbd-macro"?

Best regards
Mohsen Owzar

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