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From: scott@cs.hw.ac.uk (Scott Telford)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: What your favorite editor for programming?
Keywords: editor
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Date: 28 Mar 91 13:04:29 GMT
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In article <21481@shlump.nac.dec.com> heintze@fmcsse.enet.dec.com
(Sieg Heintze) writes:
>... I started to do it in ZWB (zortech's
>editor) where they let you  define a single macro.  Unfortunatly, I could not
>figure out how to specify a  repeat count!  (I hope this is a feature missing
>from the documentation.  I  cannot imagine implementing a macro feature in an
>editor and not letting the  user specify a repeat count!)

>After giving up on ZWB and TC (Borlands editor) I finally uploaded to VMS
>where I used my EVE extensions to do it in a couple of key strokes and then 
>downloaded it again.  What a pain.  There SHOULD be a better way. 

>What is your favorite way of executing something repeatedly in MSDOS?

This sort of thing's really easy in MicroEMACS. You press Ctrl-X ( to
start recording a keyboard macro, Ctrl-X ) to stop and Ctrl-X E to play
it back. You can set a repeat count with ESC <number> Ctrl-X E. I expect
Jove and other DOS Emacsen to work similarly.

Of course, everybody should be using Emacs-type editors...I would never use
anything else ;^)
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| Scott Telford, Dept of Computer Science,               scott@cs.hw.ac.uk    |
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